**Lijun Zhang**

Lijun Zhang, male, married, born on August 1983 in Jiangxi province, China. He has held a full professor position at the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, China, since 2013. He serves as the deputy secretary general of the Computational Materials Branch of the Chinese Materials Research Society, the vice chairman of the Youth Science and Technology Association of Central South University, as well as an associate editor/an editorial board member/a youth editorial board member of 10 international and domestic journals.

Prof. Zhang has long been engaged in computational thermodynamics, computational kinetics, and the driven design of high-performance materials as well as their preparation/manufacturing. He has served as the PI of more than 25 projects from the Chinese government and from many companies. Thus far, he has published 1 book, 3 book chapters, as well as more than 120 papers as the first author/corresponding author in international journals such as *Nature Communications*, *npj Computational Materials*, *Acta Materialia*, etc. He has organized 5 international/domestic conferences and given more than 30 international plenary/invited presentations.

He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship after his Ph.D degree in 2010; a Shenghua Distinguished Professorship at Central South University in 2013; and the following awards: Huxiang Young Talents of Hunan province in 2017, 121 Innovative Talents of Hunan province in 2019, and Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2021. Moreover, he has also won first prize for the Hunan Province Natural Science Award, the Hunan Province Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Annual Best Paper Award of the international journal *CALPHAD*.
