Professor, Faculty of Materials Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology, P.R. China (http://www.scut.edu.cn).

Guangzhao Zhang received his BE from Sichuan University in 1987 and PhD from Fudan University in 1998. He had worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1999 to 2002. He was a professor at University of Science and Technology of China during 2002 to 2010. He is now a distinguished professor at South China University of Technology. His research interests cover marine antibiofouling materials, grouting materials and physical chemistry of polymers.