Ling'en Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University. Her main research areas include pollution control in urban mines and the resource utilization of rare and dispersed metals, particularly in the areas of electronics, new energy, and industrial solid waste (waste electronic devices, lithium batteries, photovoltaic modules, fly ash, and slag). She has published over 60 SCI papers in top journals such as Chem Circularity, Environmental Science & Technology, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials, including 39 first-author/corresponding-author papers. Her papers have been cited 3350 times, with many featured on journal covers and listed as ESI 1% highly cited papers. Her research has been reported by academic platforms such as Cell and Washington University in St. Louis.