Zhang Lingxia graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) with a Ph.D. degree in 2003. She won the Lu Jiaxi Young Talent Award of CAS in 2010 and the Shanghai Rising-Star Program in 2008. She was selected as a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS in 2012, and included in the World's Highly Cited Researchers List of Clarivate in 2018. She was granted the first prize of Natural Science Award of Shanghai. Her research interests cover application research on porous and low-dimensional nanomaterials and their artificial photosynthesis for solar fuel catalysis, carbon dioxide catalytic conversion and environmental catalysis. As a project leader, she currently undertakes the key intergovernmental international cooperation projects sponsored by the National Key R&D Program of China, projects funded by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the international science and technology cooperation projects of Shanghai. She has published more than 120 research papers in domestic and foreign academic journals and obtained 19 Chinese innovation patents.