Yuetao Zhang received a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1999 and a Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry in 2004 from Jilin University. He served as a Lecturer at Jilin University from 2004 to 2006. He joined Prof. Eugene Chen’s Lab at Colorado State University as Postdoctoral Fellow since 2006 and was promoted as Research Scientist II starting from November, 2009. Since engaging in scientific research, he has published 56 papers as first author and corresponding author cited by Science Citation Index (including: 1 in Nat. Chem.; 6 in J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 7 in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; 1 in Nat. Commun.; 2 in ACS Catal.; 2 in CCS Chemistry; 2 in Green Chem.; 2 in Sci. Bull.; etc). What’s more, his papers were cited more than 2600 times and personal H-index value is 29 (By August, 2022). He joined the faculty of Jilin University as a full Professor in September 2013. He received the “NSFC Excellent Young Scholar Fellowship” in 2014. He received the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars " in 2022. The research interest of Zhang’s Group is mainly focused on the development of renewable energy and sustainable polymers.