Zhang E, born in September 1968, is a doctor, research fellow of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and member of the Science and Technology Committee of SITP. Since 1992, he has been engaged in the development of space optical remote sensing instruments for a long time. He has successively assumed the development of space remote sensing payloads, such as scanning radiometers for FY-1C and FY-1D Meteorological Satellites and FY-3A, FY-3B and FY-3C Meteorological Satellites,

the ocean color scanner for the HY-1A Ocean Satellite, and the low-orbit target imaging camera for the CX-3 Satellite. For many years, he has served as the designer-in-charge and leader of many national aerospace projects. Under his leadership, his team has completed many important national tasks excellently, and all the products out of his research are working normally in orbit. He is dedicated to the continuous and stable acquisition of high-precision quantitative earth observation data, making them serve the World Meteorological Organization and available for meteorological researchers worldwide.

His research interests mainly include:

Design of the new-generation space optical remote sensing payloads and research on the ground and on-orbit payload quantitative calibration technology; research on space-based space target recognition and clear imaging technology.

He was granted one First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of CAS, two Distinguished Scientific Achievement Awards of CAS, one Second Prize of PLA Science and Technology Advancements Award, and several invention patents.