Dr. Lei Zhang is an associate professor at the College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture in 2005, her master’s degree in Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding in 2008, and her Ph.D. in Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding in 2012, all from the College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University. In July 2013, she joined Northeast Forestry University as a lecturer. From December 2021 to August 2022, she was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. Since January 2021, she has been an associate professor. She has presided over projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key Research and Development Program and participated in major agricultural bio-breeding projects. She has published more than 30 papers, including more than 10 SCI papers; published one monograph with Science Press; and won one Liang Xi Second Prize. She mainly engages in the genetic improvement of larch and Korean pine.