Wenke Zhang obtained his Ph.D degree at Jilin University in 2002 under the guidance of Prof. Xi Zhang. During 2001-2002, he worked as a joint-training Ph. D. student in Prof. Hermann E. Gaub’s group in Munich (LMU). He then did his postdoc at School of Pharmacy and Center for Biomolecular Science in The University of Nottingham during the period of 2003-2007. Since June 2007 he became a Professor of Chemistry at Jilin University. His current research interests lie in single-molecule study of supramolecular interactions, polymer crystallization and melting, virus assembly/disassembly, single-molecule mechanochemistry. His research work has been published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and ACS Macro Letters among many others. He won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2015 and Ten Thousand Talent Plan in 2018.