Ming-Tian Zhang received a Ph. D. degree from Nankai University (China) in 2009. After postdoctoral stays at Uppsala University (with Prof. Leif Hammarström) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (with Prof. Thomas J. Meyer),he became an assitant professor at Tsinghua University (2014).Now, he is a tenured associate professor at Tsinghua University and his interests include bio-inspired design of molecular catalysts for small molecule activation and PCET.