Bing Zhu, Ph.D., is investigator and deputy director of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. Following his postdoctoral studies on DNA demethylation and co-transcriptional chromatin modifications at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he joined the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, as a faculty. He joined the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an investigator in 2014. He greatly contributed in revealing mechanisms governing mitotic inheritance of chromatin modifications. He clarified the nucleosome partition pattern during DNA replication. He discovered the first chromatin modifying enzyme that senses nucleosome density. More recently, he advanced our knowledge in mechanisms regulating the de novo establishment of DNA methylation, DNA methylation maintenance, signal induced selective demethylation and its role in transcriptional memory. Dr. Zhu is an internationally recognized scientist, who was awarded as an International Early Career Scientist Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Starting from 2020, Dr. Zhu serves as a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the Science magazine.