Zhang Guoqing is a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences. He graduated from East China University of Technology with a
bachelor's degree and received master's and doctoral degrees at China University of
Geosciences (Beijing). He then completed a joint doctoral program at The
University of Texas at San Antonio. He completed postdoctoral work at the
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a
visiting scholar at the University of Zurich. He worked as a teaching assistant
and lecturer at East China University of Technology. He also worked as an
assistant researcher and associate researcher at the Institute of Tibetan
Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won the second prize in
the Science and Technology Award of the Tibet Autonomous Region. He has also
been selected as a highly cited scholar in China by Elsevier.