Xiaodong Zhang FRS is a Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function at Imperial College London.

[2][3][4] Zhang was educated at Peking University and Stony Brook University where she was awarded a PhD in 1995 on X-ray microscopy[5][6] supervised by Janos Kirz and David Sayre.

[1] She was appointed a lecturer at Imperial College London in 2001, a Reader in 2005 and a Professor in 2008.

[1] Zhang's research investigates structural biology, transcription, DNA repair and AAA proteins, particularly ATPases.

[2][7][8][9] Zhang was awarded EMBO Membership in 2016[10] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.