Dr. Wei Zhang is a Professor and the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his PhD and did post-doctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh with Prof. Paul Dowd. His previous positions include Senior Chemist at DuPont and Director at Fluorous Technologies, Inc. His research is in the areas of fluorous chemistry, organocatalysis, free radical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and green synthesis. He has co-authored over 250 papers including three Chem. Rev. articles on the topics of free radicals and fluorous chemistry, and two books on green synthesis