Jianzhang Zhao earned his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Hebei University in 1993. He received Ph.D. degree in 2000 at Jilin University. Then he moved to Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) to do postdoctoral research under supervising of Prof. Kimoon Kim. He worked on supramolecular chemistry of cucurbituril (CB) and he prepared two new cucurbituril derivatives. In 2001, he moved to the Max-Planck Research Unit of Enzymology of Protein Folding at Halle (Saale), Germany. He worked on photochemistry of peptide (photo-switching of the conformation of peptide) with Prof. Gunter Fischer. In 2003, he moved to Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, to do another postdoctoral research. He worked on enantioselective fluorescent chemosensors, with Prof. Tony D. James at Bath. In 2005, Jianzhang Zhao joined Dalian University of Technology as a full professor.