Dr. Zhong has given plenary, keynote, or invited lectures in more than 160 international meetings and institutions. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. He is a Packard Fellow, Sloan Fellow, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, APS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, as well as the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Currently, he serves in the Physical Sciences Jury, The L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, as well as the advisory editorial board of Chemical Physics Letters and Science China. His research interests include femtobiology, biomolecular interactions and protein dynamics, and four-dimensional electron microscopy for biology.