Dawei Zhang is a full professor at University of Science & Technology Beijing. He is the Director of International Relations of Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection and Chair of East Pacific and Asia Area of NACE International. His current research interests include smart coatings and surfaces, microbiologically influenced corrosion and corrosion machine learning. He has published over 100 papers on journals including Nature, Corrosion Science and Journal of Materials Chemistry A. He is currently an Editor of Corrosion Science and member on editorial boards of several journals including Materials Degradation and Corrosion Engineering Science & Technology.