Dr. Jie Zhang, a distinguished physicist, has made significant contributions in the fields of high-energy-density physics and inertial confinement fusion. Because of these, he was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, academician of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2007, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in 2008, foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom in 2011 and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States in 2012. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Edward Teller Medal, the most important international award in inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density physics. In 2021, he was awarded the Future Science Prize in Physical Sciences.