Lin, Zhang is a professor and Doctoral supervisor of School of Environment and Energy. Dr. Lin won the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2011, the national candidate under the “Millions of Talents Project” in 2013, the Young and Middle-Aged Leaders of Science and Technology under the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2015. She is the author and co-author of 140 peer-reviewed original research papers including over 10 papers published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; PNAS; Nano Letter; Environ. Sci. Technol, total citations nearly 3000 times. She had published 3 review articles, monographs 1, chapter 1 in famous journals including Nanoscale. She applied for 43 patents. She has won many provincial and ministerial level scientific and technical individual awards and Provincial Patent two prize. She is a member of several Specialized Committee, journal editorial board, director of Guangdong environmental nano materials engineering technology research center.