2002年获中国农业科学院研究生院博士学位；
2002年7月至今中国农业科学院生物技术研究所研究员。

主要从事植物抗病、虫基因工程研究。先后主持国家“863“、国家自然基金等项目，负责转基因重大专项、行业科研等项目的研究工作；曾获省级发明一等奖一项，授权专利2项；发表科研论文20余篇；培养研究生十余人, 其中，2名硕士研究生被评为研究生院年度优秀毕业生。

近期主要论文：

1.Zhan Jin, Shi Huiping, Li Weimin, Zhang Chao, Zhang Yongqiang, NbTMP14 is involved in Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus infection and symptom development by interaction with the viral NSm protein. Viruses, 13, 427. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13030427, 2021

2.Huanian Wu, Yongqiang Zhang, Wangbin Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Chao Zhang, Shirong Jia, Weimin Li，Transcriptomic Analysis of the Primary Roots of Alhagi sparsifolia in Response to Water Stress, PLoS ONE，10(3): e0120791, 2015

3.Zhang Y, Zhang C, Pei X, Wang Z, Jia S. Li W*, Presence of poly (A) and poly(A)-rich tails in a positive-strand RNA virus known to lack 3' poly(A) tails. Virology , 454-455: 1-10, 2014

4.Yongqiang Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Chao Zhang, Zifeng Lu, Zhixing Wang, Shirong Jia, Weimin Li*, De novo foliar transcriptome of Chenopodium amaranticolor and analysis of its gene expression during virus-Induced hypersensitive Response, PLoS ONE, 7(9): e45953, 2012

5.Chao Zhang, Xinwu Pei, Zhixing Wang, Shirong Jia, Shiwei Guo, Yongqiang Zhang*, Weimin Li*, The Rice stripe virus pc4 functions in movement and foliar necrosis expression in Nicotiana benthamiana，Virology, 425: 113~121, 2012

6.Yongqiang Zhang, Chao Zhang, Weimin Li*, The nucleocapsid protein of an enveloped plant virus, Tomato spotted wilt virus, facilitates long-distance movement of Tobacco mosaic virus hybrids. Virus Res., 163: 246~253, 2012

7.D. Qu, Y. Song, W.M. Li, X.W. Pei, Z.X. Wang, S.R. Jia and Y.Q. Zhang*, Isolation and characterization of the organ-specific and light-inducible promoter of the gene encoding Rubisco activase in Solanum tuberosum, Genet. Mol. Res. 10 (2): 621~631, 2011