Yibo Zhang, born in February 1985, Zhuzhou, Hunan, member of the Communist Party of China, researcher, doctoral supervisor, member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, winner of the Jiangxi Provincial Outstanding Youth/Jiangxi Provincial "Double Thousand Plan" (youth), member of the Youth Editorial Board of The Innovation, Rare Earth and Inorganic Salt Industry and academic editor of The Innovation-Materials. Their main research directions are rare earth functional materials, environmental catalysis and air pollution control. In view of the important demands of national environmental protection and high-value utilization of rare earth resources, he is committed to the accurate design and reaction mechanism research of high-efficiency rare earth functional materials, revealing the mechanism and structure–activity relationship from the micro level to solve key scientific problems and technical problems in practical applications. He presided over the sub-project of the national key research and development project, the national natural science fund (general, youth) and the key sub-project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 50 papers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem.Sci., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., J. Hazard. Mater. and other publications, and has authorized more than 10 invention patents. He has long been the reviewer of Appl. Catal. A, J. Environ. Chem. Eng., Appl. Surf. Sci. and other journals.