Peng Zhang, Shannxi,
China. Oct, 1970. Ph.D degree in atmospheric physics at Institute of
Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS), Beijing, China in
1998. He worked at the Earth Observation Research Center, National
Space Development Agency of Japan (EORC/NASDA) with post-doctoral position from
1998 to 2001. He worked at the National Satellite Meteorological Center, China
Meteorological Administration (NSMC/CMA), from 2001 to 2023 and was the deputy
Director-General from 2013 to 2023. He was the visiting scholar at the Centre de
Meteorologie Spatiale, Meteo-France (CMS/Meteo-France), in 2003 and the visiting
associate scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite
Studies, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison), in 2005. He has been the Director-General of the CMA Meteorological
Observation Centre (MOC) since 2023. Currently, he is the chief scientist of
the Chinese polar-orbiting meteorological satellite program and his major fields
cover the atmospheric remote sensing, instrument calibration and validation,
atmospheric radiative transfer calculation, etc. He has authored and
coauthored over 200 papers published in refereed scientific journals to date.
