长期从事太阳能光化学转化研究，在光催化、电催化、材料精准合成、原位表征与催化反应机理研究等方向取得了系列创新性研究成果：设计合成了系列具有宽范围可见光捕光、高效催化水氧化、选择性催化二氧化碳还原、合成氨等功能的新材料，报道了首例多相催化水氧化TOF值可媲美自然光合PSII系统的人工水氧化催化剂；发展了系列材料精准合成和界面调控的新方法和新策略，取得了高效多相水氧化、催化二氧化碳选择性还原、合成氨等反应机理新认识；组装了系列可见光催化全分解水制氢的粉末悬浮体系，不仅大幅拓宽了可见光的利用范围，而且多次刷新并保持了粉末悬浮体系可见光催化全分解水制氢的表观量子效率国际记录。已在Nat. Catal., Nat. Commun., Joule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 和 Adv. Mater. 等期刊发表系列高水平学术论文。主持承担国家基金委杰出青年基金，优秀青年基金，重点项目；科技部重点研发专项；中国科学院“B类”先导等项目。

Fuxiang Zhang received his Ph. D. degree from Nankai University, China in 2004, and became a full professor of physical chemistry and doctoral supervisor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. As leader of the "Solar hydrogen storage materials and catalysis research group" at DICP, he is working with his colleagues for solar-to-chemical conversion involving photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, precise synthesis of materials, in situ characterizations as well as understanding of catalytic reaction mechanism etc. To date, he has designed and synthesized more than 30 cases of novel materials with such functions as wide range of visible light absorption, efficient heterogenous catalytic water oxidation, and selective catalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Meanwhile, it contains the first artificial water oxidation catalyst with TOF value comparable to the natural photosynthetic PSII system. Furthermore, he has developed methods and strategies for precise synthesis of materials and interface regulation, and has obtained new understanding of underlying reaction mechanism to the heterogeneous catalytic water oxidation and selective reduction of carbon dioxide. It is worth noting that Prof. Zhang’s group has assembled a series of powder-suspended systems for visible-light-driven overall water splitting to produce hydrogen, which not only greatly expands the region of visible light utilization, but also continuously updates and maintains the international record of apparent quantum efficiency of hydrogen production since 2015. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals containing such as Nat. Catal., Nat. Commun., Joule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Adv. Mater. etc. He has presided over the Distinguished Young Scholars and Excellent Young Scholars supported from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key R&D projects supported from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Millions of Talent Projects National candidates, and enjoyed the special allowance of the State Council. In 2024, Professor Zhang was selected as a full member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences.