Prof. Cui Zhang, Principle Investigator and PhD supervisor of the Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her BSc in 2005 from Shandong Normal University, PhD in 2012 from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences . From 2012 to 2015, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, CAS; from 2015 to 2019, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She currently serves as the Associate Editor for Current Chinese Science. She has published 17 papers in international journals such as Developmental Cell, Development, PLoS Genetics and PNAS, with over 800 citations. She also participated in writing the book Plant Transcription Factors.