Zhentang Zhao Research Professor of Accelerator Science and Technology at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Address: No.2019 Jialuo Road, Jiading District,201800, Shanghai, China E-mail: zhaozt@sinap.ac.cn URL: http://ssrf.sinap.ac.cn/english/

Expertise : After receiving his Ph.D degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, Dr. Zhao was working on Beijing Electron and Positron Collider (BEPC) operation and its luminosity upgrading program at Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, from 1990 to 1998. During this period, he was working on LHC accelerator R&D at CERN from 1995 to 1996. Later on he was working on Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) at SINAP as deputy project director and in charge of the SSRF accelerator design and construction from 1999 to 2009. Since 2002, he has been working on the SDUV-FEL and SXFEL as the project director. Currently, he is the Chief Scientist of a State Key fundamental Research Program on FEL, and the project director of SSRF phase-II bemlines. He has served KEK-PF, Japan, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea, Synchrotron Light Research Institute, Thailand and LNLS Sirius Accelerator, Brazil, as a member of their International Advisory Committees, and He is a member of ACFA. He became the director of SINAP in 2009 and the director of SSRF in 2010.