2002年获中国农业科学院研究生院博士学位；2002年7月至今中国农业科学院生物技术研究所研究员。

主要从事植物抗病基因工程研究。

1.Huanian Wu, Yongqiang Zhang, Wangbin Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Chao Zhang, Shirong Jia, Weimin Li，Transcriptomic Analysis of the Primary Roots of Alhagi sparsifolia in Response to Water Stress, PLoS ONE，10(3): e0120791, 2015 2.Zhang Y, Zhang C, Pei X, Wang Z, Jia S. Li W*, Presence of poly (A) and poly(A)-rich tails in a positive-strand RNA virus known to lack 3' poly(A) tails. Virology , 454-455: 1-10, 2014 3.Yongqiang Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Chao Zhang, Zifeng Lu, Zhixing Wang, Shirong Jia, Weimin Li*, De novo foliar transcriptome of Chenopodium amaranticolor and analysis of its gene expression during virus-Induced hypersensitive Response, PLoS ONE, 7(9): e45953, 2012 4.Chao Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Zhixing Wang, Shirong Jia, Shiwei Guo, Yongqiang Zhang*, Weimin Li*, The Rice stripe virus pc4 functions in movement and foliar necrosis expression in Nicotiana benthamiana，Virology, 425: 113~121, 2012 5.Yongqiang Zhang, Chao Zhang, Weimin Li*, The nucleocapsid protein of an enveloped plant virus, Tomato spotted wilt virus, facilitates long-distance movement of Tobacco mosaic virus hybrids. Virus Res., 163: 246~253, 2012 6.D. Qu, Y. Song, W.M. Li, X.W. Pei, Z.X. Wang, S.R. Jia and Y.Q. Zhang*, Isolation and characterization of the organ-specific and light-inducible promoter of the gene encoding Rubisco activase in Solanum tuberosum, Genet. Mol. Res. 10 (2): 621~631, 2011