Qingyou Zhang, male, was born in a small town in northeast China in 1972. He began to study chemistry at Jilin University in 1990, where he graduated in 1997, and obtained his master degree.

In 1997, he worked as a teacher in a university in Haerbin, Heilongjiang province. He continued to study in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. He was awarded doctoral degree in 2003 for his thesis entitled "Studies on Quantitative Structure-Activity/Property Relationships".

From Feb. 2004 to Feb. 2007, he joined the group of Prof. Joao Aires de Sousa in the Department of Chemistry in the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, as a post-doctoral fellow.

Since Jun. 2007, he has worked in College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan province, China.