Zhiqiang Yan received his PhD in Biophysics from Nanjing University in 2010. He worked as Postdoctoral at Stony Brook University (2010–2013). From 2013 to 2022, he worked as associate researcher in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then moved to Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as researcher. His research topics mainly include: Protein evolution, Protein design, Biomolecular recognition. He is a member of the Specialized Committee on Biomolecular Structure Prediction and Simulation, Chinese Society of Bioinformatics.