Yinping Zhang got his Bachelor degree (1985), Master degree (1988) and Ph.D degree (1991) in University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He is a professor and director of Institute of Built Environment, Dept. of Building Science, and Director of Building Environment Test Center of Tsinghua University, China.  He was a visiting scholar or professor in Stuttgart University, Germany (1994-95), Tokyo University, Japan (1996), and Technique University of Denmark (DTU) (2004) and the Otto Mønsted visiting professor of DTU, Denmark (2007/2008). His research interests are indoor air quality, energy conservation through energy storage in buildings. He has published eight books or book chapters, over 90 international journal papers, and obtained 30 Chinese patents. He is principal investigator for over 30 research projects. He gave 7 keynote speeches in international conferences including the 11th Inter. Conf. of Indoor Air, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008. He is the administrative vice-chairman and general secretary of Chinese Association of Indoor Environment and Health, fellow of Inter. Academy of Indoor Air Science, and the Chair of Scientific and Technological Committee of Air Cleaning of Inter. Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ). Zhang serves as member on editorial boards of 5 international journals including Indoor Air, Indoor and Built Environment. He has received a series of awards such Outstanding Young Researcher Award of NSFC, the 1st and the 2nd Prizes of Ministry of Education of China.