Professor Binsheng Zhang obtained his BEng in 1982, MSc in 1984, and Ph.D. in concrete materials science in 1987 at Tongji University, Shanghai. After briefly working as a lecturer, he joined the Civil Engineering Department at Glasgow University in 1988 as a research fellow, working on the EPSRC and industrial projects until 2002. Afterward, he worked as a structural engineering consultant for two years and then became a Lecturer in structural engineering in 2003 in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at the Edinburgh Napier University. In 2013, he joined Glasgow Caledonian University as a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering, and he became a Professor in 2016.