Professor Peijun Zhang obtained her Ph.D. in Biophysics and Physiology from University Virginia, M.S. in Physics and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University, China. She was a postdoc and subsequently a staff scientist at the National Cancer Institute, NIH. In 2006, she joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. In 2016, she joined the University of Oxford as a full professor, and jointly as the founding director of eBIC (the UK National Electron Bio-imaging Centre) at the Diamond Light Source. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of large protein complexes and assemblies, in particular those involved in HIV-1 pathogenesis and bacterial chemotaxis signaling, by developing and combining novel technologies for high-resolution cryoEM and cryoET. She received many awards, including “Carnegie Science Emerging Female Scientist Award” (2014) and “Wellcome Trust Investigator Award” (2017).