Prof.Dr. Weiping Zhang received his B. Sc. degree in applied chemistry at Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in 1994, and M. Sc. degree in organic chemistry at the same university in 1997, and Ph. D. degree in physical chemistry at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2000. From 2000 till 2004 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich) and National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. Then he returned to DICP where he became an associate professor in 2005 and professor in 2006. In 2011 he moved to School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology as a full professor. His current research interests are 1)synthesis and modifications of porous functional materials and their applications in the environment and energy catalysis such as olefin metathesis, conversion of platform molecules derived from biomass, DeNOx, etc. 2)the development of in situ NMR techniques and their applications in material science and catalysis, especially the synthesis and reaction mechanisms as revealed by in situ 1D, 2D NMR spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.