Wei Zhang has been a distinguished researcher and then a full professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, since 2015. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Zhejiang University, China, and obtained his PhD degree and carried out postdoctoral research at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His current research interests include phase-change memory materials, first-principles materials design, and materials behavior at the nanoscale. Zhang can be reached by email at wzhang0@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.