Xiaodong Zhang

Xiaodong Zhang is a Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function at Imperial College London.

Education
Zhang was educated at Peking University and Stony Brook University where she was awarded a PhD in 1995 on X-ray microscopy supervised by Janos Kirz and David Sayre.

Research and career
After a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University with Don Wiley she moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1997. She was appointed a lecturer at Imperial College London in 2001, a Reader in 2005 and a Professor in 2008.

Zhang's research investigates structural biology, transcription, DNA repair and AAA proteins, particularly ATPases.

Awards and honours
Zhang was awarded EMBO Membership in 2016 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.