Xingwang Zhang obtained his Bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical engineering at Qilu University of technology in 2010. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. degree in medicinal chemistry at Ocean university of China, and his doctoral research focused mainly on marine natural products discovery. Then, he moved to Prof. Shengying Li’s lab at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studying biosynthesis of natural products as a postdoctoral research associate. He is currently a research associate in Prof. Li’s lab at Shandong University. His principally research interests are discovering natural products from microorganism and analyzing their biosynthetic mechanism.