Zhang Tao (chemist)

Zhang Tao (born 1963) is a Chinese chemist.

Zhang is a native of Shaanxi, born in 1963. Zhang earned a doctorate from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1989 and pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham before returning to DICP in 1990, where he was appointed to a full professorship in 1995. Zhang headed DICP as director from 2007 to 2017. In 2013, Zhang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.