1988年厦门大学无机化学专业本科毕业，1993年到海外进修，2003年在海外学习获得物理化学硕士学位，2006年在海外学习获得材料物理博士学位。2006年4月在海外工作从事博士后研究。2008年4月回国受聘于中国科学院福建物质结构研究所研究员。2011年成立课题组，主要从事低维磁性与自旋阻挫材料的合成制备，单晶生长和磁学表征等研究工作。曾入选首批福建省引进高层次创新人才和2021年福建省高层次B类人才。迄今在 PRL. JACS. PRB. Chem. Commun., Inorg. Chem等国际核心刊物上发表了200多篇SCI论文。目前是包括PRL, PRB, JACS, Matter, Chem.Sci., Chem. Mater., Chem. Commun., Inorg. Chem在内的众多期刊的特邀审稿人。

1. Y. Cui, H. Zou, N. Xi, Z. He*, Y.X. Yang, L. Shu, G. H. Zhang, Z. Hu, T. Chen, R. Yu, J.D. Wu*, W. Q. Yu*, Quantum Criticality of the Ising-like Screw Chain Antiferromagnet SrCo2V2O8 in a Transverse Magnetic Field, Physical Review Letter 2019, 123, 067203.

2. Y. Tang, C. Peng, W. Guo, J-F. Wang, G. Su, and Z. He*, Octa-Kagome Lattice Compounds Showing Quantum Critical Behaviors: Spin Gap Ground State versus Antiferromagnetic Ordering, Journal of The American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 14057-14060.

3. Z. He*, C-S. Lin, W-D Cheng*, A. Okazawa, N. Kojima, J. Yamaura, and Y. Ueda, “Unusually large magnetic anisotropy in a CuO-based semiconductor Cu5V2O10”,  Journal of The American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 1298-1300.

4. Z. He*, J. Yamaura, Y. Ueda, and WD Cheng*, CoV2O6 single crystals grown in a closed crucible: Unusual magnetic behaviors with large anisotropy and 1/3 magnetization plateau”, Journal of The American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 7554-7555.

5. X. Liu, Z. Ouyang*, T. Xiao, J. Cao, Z. Wang, Z. Xia, Z. He* and W. Tong, Magnetism and ESR of the Seff = 1/2 Antiferromagnet BaCo2(SeO3)3•3H2O with Dimer-chain Structure, Physical Review B, 2022, 105, 134417.

6. J. Wang, W. Liu, Z. He*, C. Liu, M. Tokunaga, M. Li, C. Dong, X. Han, F. Herlach, C. Lu, Z. Ouyang, Z. Xia, K. Kindo, L. Li and M. Yang*, Ferroelectric Polarization Reversal in Multiferroic MnWO4 via a Rotating Magnetic Field up to 52 T, Physical Review B, 2021, 104, 014415.

7. W. Ouyang, Y. C. Sun, J. F. Wang*, X. Y. Yue, R. Chen, Z. X. Wang, Z. He*, Z. C. Xia, Y. Liu , and G. H. Rao, Novel half-magnetization plateau and nematic like transition in the S = 1 skew chain Ni2V2O7, Physical Review B, 2018, 97, 144406. 　　  

8. X. Y. Yue, W. Ouyang*, J. F. Wang, Z. X. Wang, Z. C. Xia, Z. He*, Magnetization and ESR studies on Cu4(OH)6FCl: An antiferromagnet with a kagome lattice, Physical Review B, 2018, 97, 054417.

9. Z. He*, J. Yamaura, Y. Ueda, and W-D Cheng*, Crystal growth and multiple magnetic transitions of spin-1 chain system Ni2V2O7, Physical Review B, 2009, 79, 092404.

10. Z. He*, S. C. Chen, C. S. Lue*, W-D Cheng, and Y. Ueda, Two magnetic orderings and spin flop transition in spin-1 system SrNi2(PO4)2, Physical Review B, 2008, 78, 212410.

11. Z. He* and Y. Ueda, Paramagnetic anisotropy and spin-flop transition in single crystals of quasi-one-dimensional system -Cu2V2O7, Physical Review B, 2008, 77, 052402.

12. Z. He*, T. Taniyama, and M. Itoh, Antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition in longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields in a SrCo2V2O8 crystal, Physical Review B, 2006, 73, 212406.

13. Z. He, T. Taniyama, T. Kyomen, and M. Itoh*, Field-induced order-disorder transition in the quasi-one-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8, Physical Review B, 2005, 72, 172403.

14. Z. He, T. Kyomen, and M. Itoh*, Spin-glass behavior in the ordered ribbon borate Cu2CoB2O6, Physical Review B, 2004, 70, 134431.

15. Z. He, T. Kyomen, and M. Itoh*, BaCu2V2O8: Quasi-one-dimensional alternating chain compound with a large spin gap, Physical Review B, 2004, 69, R220407.