Professor Gong-Qing Zhang has been Professor of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University in China since 1983. Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, he was educated at the Department of Mathematics at Peking University from 1954 to 1959.

He has been selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences.

He was President of the Chinese Mathematical Society from 1996-1999 and Director of the Institute of Mathematics of Peking University during the period 1988-1999.

His major research areas are Geometric analysis, Nonlinear Analysis, Infinite dimensional Morse theory and its applications to differential equations.