Zhang Yibo received his bachelor's degree in Plant Protection from Hunan Agricultural University in 2005. In 2008, he received a master's degree in Agricultural Insect and Pest Control from Yunnan Agricultural University. He received his Ph.D. in Biosafety from Southwest University in 2014. From October 2009 to October 2010, he conducte research as a visitor at the Institute of Agriculture and Food, National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Catalonia, Spain. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In September 2016, he joined the Institute of Plant Protection and is now an associate researcher. He is also deputy director of the Youth Working Committee, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Plant Protection. He was the vice chairman of the 11th Council of the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is mainly engaged in research on the occurrence regularity, identification and early warning, damage, and disaster characteristics of agricultural invasive pests (leaf bugs/flies, whiteflies), and biological control technology using natural parasitic enemies.