YONG ZHANG

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ORCID                           0000-0003-2968-0081

Date of birth             Feb 17 1983, PR China

CONTACT                      +45 52689118; yong.zhang@bio.ku.dk

EDUCATION

2012                            PhD, University of Aix-Marseille II & CNRS, France

2006                             Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Shandong University, PR China

ScienTific focus areas

bacterial second messengers, their intracellular homeostasis and target proteins in bacterial tolerance to stresses including antibiotics and phages.

POSITIONS

• 2019-now, Tenure Track Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2016-2018, MSCA Research Fellow & Postdoc, Centre of Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence (BASP), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2013-2016, EMBO Research Fellow & Visiting Researcher, Centre of Molecular Bacteriology and Immunity (CMBI), Imperial College London, UK
• 2012, Research Associate, Yale University School of Medicine, US

academic honors, Selected

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2016-2018
• EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (ALTF 721-2013), 2013-2016

MAIN CURRENT FUNDING

• Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Research Project 1 (FNU) (2032-00030B, 2022-2025, 2.9 M DKK)
• Marie Skłodowska Curie COFUND/KU TALENT PhD program (801199, 2020-2023, 1.7 M DKK)
• Novo Nordisk Foundation, Project Grant (NNF19OC0058331, 2020-2022, 1.2 M DKK)
• Marie Skłodowska Curie individual grant (707138, 2016-2018, 1.5 M DKK)

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING

Supervised 8 MSc, 7 BSc students, 5 PhD students

Teaching

• Molecular Microbiology (15 ECTS), Bachelor course, course responsible: Yong Zhang

–Been leading this course from the year 2019/2020.

• Molecular Biology (15 ECTS) (2019-2021), for the Biomedicine bachelor students, course responsible: Michael Lisby
• Principal Concepts in Molecular Microbiology, Master course, course responsible: Niles-Ulrik Frigaard.

Reviewer and grant evaluation activities

• Serve as reviewer for Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature, Nature Microbiology, Nature Communication, PLoS Biology, Molecular Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Biofilm, JoVE etc
• Co-reviewer of Israel Science Foundation grant
• Co-reviewer of ERC Consolidating grant
• Reviewer of the National Science Centre Poland grants

BIBLIOMETRICS (as of May, 2023)

(17 publications in total of 665 citations, with 7 of first authorship and 5 of corresponding authorship; h-index = 10; publon)