Liangfang Zhang

Dr. Liangfang Zhang is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor Professor and Chair of the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Zhang received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 under the mentorship of Prof. Steve Granick. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Zhang joined UC San Diego as an Assistant Professor in 2008, was promoted to Professor in 2014, and became the inaugural Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor Professor in 2021. His research focuses on creating innovative biomimetic nanotechnologies for biomedical applications such as countermeasures, drug delivery, and vaccine.