Prof./Dr. Zhang is professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2002. His research interests are energy and structural materials for energy harvesting and structural applications with light weight and environmental friendship, including ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FMSMAs), physics of martensite transformation, solid-state refrigeration, metal-matrix composites (MMCs), physics and chemistry in MMCs, composite interface, strengthening and toughening of MMCs. He has published over 140 academic publications in journals such as Nature Materials, Acta Materialia and Composites Part A. He also supervised a large number of research projects in the areas of FMSMAs and MMCs. His recent work focuses on the FMSMAs with multifunctional properties such as magnetic-field-induced strain, superelasticity and related elastocaloric effect (eCE), magnetic and metamagnetic transition behavior and related magnetocaloric effects (MCE), 3D printing of FMSMAs and application of such materials for room temperature cooling applications.