Zi Yang Meng’s research focus on quantum many-body computation and its application to modelling and explanation of quantum materials. He is editorial board member of Reports on Progress in Physics and was a Mercator fellow of DFG. Before HKU, he was a professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained phd in Germany and has been postdoctoral fellows in the US and Canada. He writes essays (mainly in Chinese) to express his opinion on physics research and life and struggle as a scientist in cultural and societal landscapes, these essays can be found in his group page https://quantummc.xyz/.