2008年1月于南京理工大学化学化工学院获工学博士。

2008年3月至2013年5月，江苏大学科学研究院从事科研工作。

2013年5月起，江南大学化学与材料工程学院从事科研工作。

主要从事簇合/聚物功能分子材料的合成与性能研究。

1、Jinfang Zhang, Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Huajian Zhao, Jianghua Li, Gaoju Qu, Liang Sun, Mark G. Humphrey, Chi Zhang*， “Facile Syntheses and Tunable Non-Linear Optical Properties of Heterothiometallic Clusters with [MS4Ag2] Units (M = Mo, W)”， Chemistry A European Journal, 2010, 16(47), 13946-13950.

2、Jinfang Zhang, Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Yimeng Zhou, Yuan Cao, Jianghua Li, Huajian Zhao, Jingchun Hu, Jinhua Wu, Mark G. Humphrey, Chi Zhang*， “Syntheses, Structural, Theoretical, and Nonlinear Optical Studies of Non-Interpenetrating Three-Dimensional Nest-Shaped-Cluster [MoOS3Cu3]-Based Coordination Polymers”，Crystal Growth & Design, 2011, 11(1), 100-109.

3、Jinfang Zhang, Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Junyi Yang, Hongyang Wei, Wenjiang Huang, Marie P. Cifuentes, Mark G. Humphrey, Chi Zhang*，“Syntheses and NLO properties of 1D heterothiometallic anionic W/S/Ag clusters possessing solvento-ytterbium cation-directed isomeric skeletons”， New Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 35(2), 328-338.

4、Jinfang Zhang, Yinglin Song, Junyi Yang, Mark G. Humphrey, Chi Zhang*, “A single-bridge strategy for synthesis of a 3-D heterobimetallic cluster with a heavily-distorted diamondoid topology and enhanced third-order nonlinear optical properties”, Crystal Growth & Design, 2008, 8(2), 387-390.

5、Chi Zhang*, Yuan Cao, Jinfang Zhang, Suci Meng, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Yinglin Song, Jing Ma, Zhaoxu Chen, Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Mark G. Humphrey, “Modulation of third-order nonlinear optical properties by backbone modification of polymeric pillared-layer heterometallic clusters”,Advanced Materials, 2008, 20(10), 1870-1875.