Mengru Mira Zhang graduated from East China University of Science and Technology for B.E. and then joined the University of Akron for Polymer Science. After obtaining her M.S. degree in 2015, she decided to pursue her Ph.D. degree in Dr. Michael L. Gross lab at Washington University in St. Louis with interests in developing and utilizing multiple mass spectrometry-based biophysical approaches to characterize protein higher-order structures and address different biological questions. After graduation in July 2020, she joined Seattle Genetics and is now a Scientist in the Analytical Science Department.