Yang Zhang obtained his BEng in 2018 on Pharmaceutical Engineering which was jointly educated by Shandong Academy of Life Sciences and the University of Jinan. He then carried on his MPhil research on computer-aided drug design (CADD) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation under the supervision of Dr. Richard Bryce at the University of Manchester. In 2020, he joined the Caflisch group to pursue his PhD on drug discovery platform development.
Yang's research interests are driven by novel drug discovery especially on exploring the molecular mechanism of diseases or medicine through computational methods. In his spare time, he likes playing table tennis or watching movies with his friends. He also enjoys playing Sudoku or video games and listening to music when he is alone.