Professor ZHU Meifang, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS Fellow. Currently, she is the dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering as well as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials at Donghua University. She was elected the president for the Fiber Society (USA) (2025), the vice president for the Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS) , the China Textile Engineering Society, and the Chinese Association of Women Scientific Workers, as well as the Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Fiber Materials.

Prof. Zhu has long been engaged in the research of functional fibers, nanofibers and intelligent fiber materials, organic/inorganic hybrid materials. She has published 10 books (chapters) and more than 500 SCI papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is also the author or co-author for more than 300 National Invention Patents. Her honors and awards include Second Prize of National Award for Technological Inventions, Second Prize of National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, National Innovation Competition Award, First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, the Cheung Kong Scholars, Shanghai Science and Technology Elite, etc.