and Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of the late Professor Paul Dowd. After a two-year stay at the same university as a Research Assistant Professor, he joined DuPont in 1995. In early 2001 he moved back to Pittsburgh and was one of the key founding members of Fluorous Technologies, Inc. (FTI). He is now the Director of Discovery Chemistry responsible for the research and development of fluorous technologies for solution-phase synthesis and separations. Over the years, Dr. Zhang has gained both academic and industrial experience. His professional areas of interest include free radical chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, fluorous chemistry, microwave-assisted organic synthesis, and design and synthesis of drug-like small molecule libraries. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers including 2 book chapters and 6 review articles. In recent years he delivered many invited lectures and international conference presentations on fluorous technologies and combinatorial chemistry.