Dr. Lei Zhang currently works as a lecturer at the School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China. In 2015, he graduated from Nanjing University with a bachelor's degree in geological engineering. From 2015 to 2020 he studied for a master's and doctoral degree at Nanjing University. During his master's degree, he went to the University of Tuscany, Italy, for a visiting study. During his doctoral studies, he went to Case Western Reserve University in the United States for joint training. In 2020, he entered the Department of Water Conservancy, Tsinghua University, for postdoctoral research. His research interests are multi-site monitoring of landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, distributed fiber optic monitoring, and landslide stability assessment and prediction and early warning.