1998年获得博士学位，2004年评为教授。2013年首次利用Bridgman法制备了高熵合金单晶，Al0.3CuCrFeNi2；2000年发明了微量稀土元素可以提高非晶合金的玻璃形成能力，已被学术界和工业界广泛应用；2008年提出了溶体构型熵和混合焓比值参量W，用来评价材料的构型熵值，已被大量文献证明可以有效的预测固溶体和非晶相的形成。2014年发表的一篇关于高熵合金的文章，目前单篇他引超过了4000次。2010年出版《非晶与高熵合金》中文专著，获得了2018年国家自然科学二等奖和教育部自然科学一等奖，2018年出版《先进高熵合金技术》中文专著；2019年出版英文专著《High Entropy Materials, A Brief Introduction》，Springer-Nature出版社。主讲课程《弹道材料学》，多次在国际和国内会议上作主题邀请报告。兼任中国材料研究学会理事，核材料学会理事；金属间化合物与非晶合金分会理事，副秘书长。SCI期刊《Metals Materials International》编辑；在SCI期刊《Entropy》主编专辑《New Advances in High-entropy Alloys》；被聘为国际高熵材料学术委员会委员。是顶级期刊《Nature》，《Science》，和《Nature Review Materials》等论文评阅人。 Yong Zhang has been a university professor at the USTB since 2004. He prepared single-crystal high entropy alloy, Al0.3CuCrFeNi2; He proposed a balance parameter to evaluate the configurational entropic effect over the enthalpy at liquid state, which has been verified effective in predicting the solid solution and amorphous phase formation in multicomponent materials. He invented a BCC structured high entropy alloy, AlTiCoCrFeNi, which have very high compressive strength and ductility superior to most of the bulk metallic glasses in 2007. He has published two review papers on the journal of "Progress in Materials Science (PMS)", each is about 100 pages. He authored a book entitled "High-entropy Materials: A Brief Introduction" by Springer Publisher, in 2019. He obtained National Award of Natural Science in China in 2019.