Dorothy Zhang

Dorothy Zhang serves as the Vice President of Global Development and Vice President of Community at iGEM since July 2020. Involved with the iGEM Competition since March 2017, Dorothy has contributed as a Human Practices Committee Member, Judge for the 2017 and 2018 competitions, and held the positions of Primary Principal Investigator for the BGIC-Global 2018 high school team and Secondary Principal Investigator for the BGIC-Union 2017 high school team. Previously, Dorothy coordinated the iGEM Community and served as an iGEM Ambassador to Asia from February 2019 to June 2020. Consulting at Cold Spring Harbor Asia from March 2019 to June 2020, Dorothy also directed science education at BGI-Shenzhen from December 2016 to January 2019, focusing on innovative educational programs in gene science for middle and high school students. Earlier career experiences include roles at Cold Spring Harbor Asia DNA Learning Center as Operation Director and Senior Business Administrator at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting & Courses. Dorothy's academic background includes studying Psychology at East China Normal University and further education at The University of Edinburgh from 2019 to 2020.