Daping Zhang received his B.Sc. from Peking University and M.Sc. from Beijing University of Technology, China. Afterwards, he worked as research assistant, lecturer and team leader in Beijing University of Technology for seven years and then received his Ph.D. degree from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. After three years Postdoc in University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Dr. Zhang had been working in Tripos Discovery Research Center, UK and Resolution Chemicals Limited, UK, focusing on R&D of new medicine and manufacturing of patent medicine.  Afterwards, he joined The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as a publisher to lead RSC publishing in Greater China before he became the Executive Editor of the Frontiers series journals collaboration between CCS and RSC. In 2018, he joined Wiley as Associate Director of Editorial and Society Management and takes responsibility on society collaboration and global OA journal management.