Jiaxu Zhang received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from Jilin University, China, in 2006. From 2006 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Texas Tech University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with Professor William L. Hase. He then joined the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech as a postdoctoral researcher from 2011 to 2012, collaborating with Professor Diego Troya. In 2012, he returned to China and served as a senior visiting scholar and associate professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2014 to 2024, he was a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, under the National Overseas Talent Plan. Since July 2024, he has been a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as Advanced Talents of Yili Normal University, where he also serves as the discipline leader. In December 2024, he was selected for the Tianchi Leading Talent Program. His research interests include modification of photoelectrocatalytic materials, nano electrode materials, high value utilization of coal, and mechanistic studies of chemically and physically significant reactions.