中国科学院院士，东华大学教授、博士生导师，纤维材料专家。现任东华大学材料科学与工程学院院长、纤维材料改性国家重点实验室主任，兼任中国材料研究学会副理事长、中国纺织工程学会副理事长、中国女科技工作者协会副会长、上海科普教育发展基金会理事长、《Advanced Fiber Materials》主编等职位。

长期从事纤维材料的功能化、绿色化、智能化和高性能化研究工作，承担完成国家重点研发计划等科研项目40余项，出版著作10部（章），发表论文500余篇，获授权发明专利300余件。曾获国家技术发明二等奖、国家科技进步二等奖、国家教学成果二等奖、首届全国创新争先奖状、上海市自然科学一等奖等20余项奖励。是国家“万人计划”科技创新领军人才、首批“黄大年式教师团队”负责人、上海市教育功臣。

Professor Meifang Zhu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS Fellow. Currently, she is the dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering and the director of the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials at Donghua University. She also serves as the vice-president for the Fiber Society (USA), for the Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS), for the China Textile Engineering Society, for the Chinese Association of Women Scientific Workers, as well as the Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Fiber Materials.

Prof. Zhu has long been engaged in the research of functional fibers, nanofibers and intelligent fiber materials, organic/inorganic hybrid materials. She published 10 books (chapters) and more than 500 SCI papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is also the author or co-author for more than 300 National Invention Patents. Her honors and awards include Second Prize of National Award for Technological Inventions, Second Prize of National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, National Innovation Competition Award, First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, the Cheung Kong Scholars, Shanghai Science and Technology Elite, etc.