Xumu Zhang received his BS from Wuhan University (1982) and MS  from Chinese Science Academy (1985) with Professor Jiaxi Lu and  University of California, San Diego (1987) with Professor Gerhard N.  Schrauzer. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1992 from Stanford University under the  guidance of Professor James P. Collman（The supervisor of Nobel Prize Sharpless and  Grubbs）. He pursued postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 1992 to 1994. Before  joining SUSTech in 2015, he was a professor of chemistry in Pennstate University and  distinguished professor in Rutgers University. Xumu Zhang is the first person from mainland China, who won the prestigious ACS Cope  Scholar Award in 2002 for his invention of the toolbox of chiral ligands for his development  of homogeneous catalysts that make it practical to synthesize many chiral molecules,  especially those having biological significance. In 2014, a chemical reaction was named after  his name as Zhang Enyne Cycloisomerization. In frontier areas of science, Xumu Zhang has  applied over 50 U.S. and international patents, published more than 400 papers and the papers  are cited over 20000 times. His research interests include high efficient and selective  hydrogenation and hydroformylation, biomass energy conversion and green synthesis of  chiral drugs.