清华大学教授，中国科学院院士，美国艺术与科学院外籍院士，现任中国科学院学部主席团成员、中科院学部咨询评议委员会主任、中国生物物理学会名誉理事长，中国科协生命科学学会联合体创始主席；曾任全国政协常委、南开大学校长、中国科学院生物物理研究所所长、国际生物物理联盟（IUPAB）主席。

饶子和团队长期从事新发再发传染病病原体的三维结构研究和创新药物的研究，在流感病毒、SARS和新冠等冠状病毒、艾滋病病毒、甲型肝炎病毒、手足口病毒、疱疹病毒、非洲猪瘟病毒及结核分枝杆菌等重要病原体的机制研究方面做出了系统的创新性贡献，在国际科学期刊上发表同行评审论文420余篇，其中包括在Cell、Nature、Science 三大科学杂志的主刊上发表研究论文25篇，被引用逾35,000次，h-index 89，i10-index 306，获得专利授权38项。饶子和团队研究成果中已有三次入选“中国科学十大进展”。

Zihe Rao, professor in Tsinghua University, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences(AAAS), Member of the Presidium of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary President of Biophysics Society of China, Founding President of China Union of Life Science Societies. He was severed as President of Nankai University, Director-General of the Institute of Biophysics of CAS, and President of International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB).

He has revealed fundamental structure-function and mechanistic insights to the replication/transcription, assembly and host invasion of coronavirus, retrovirus, influenza virus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, Africa-Swine-Fever-virus and other disease-causing viruses, and uncovered how Mycobacterium tuberculosis achieves metabolite/energy transport and drug resistance. This has led to new therapeutic targets and innovative drug designs. To date, Zihe Rao has published more than 420 peer reviewed research papers, including 25 papers in Science, Nature and Cell, with over 35,000 citations (retrieved from Google Scholar), h-index 89, i10-index 306. He also has 38 innovation patents.