Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang
Schaeffler AG Supervisory Board Member
After completing secondary school, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang studied automotive engineering at Tsinghua
University, Beijing, PRC, and received a Bachelor of Science degree. He then worked as a development
engineer at the 2nd Automobile Works of China, PRC, in 1982 and 1983.
From 1985 to 1987, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang studied automotive engineering at the Technical University of
Berlin (West), finishing with a “Diplom Ingenieur” degree. He worked from 1987 to 1991 as an assistant and
doctoral student at the Institute of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and received
"Doctor Ingenieur" degree.
From 1992 to 2006, he was employed as a development engineer, senior engineer, group leader and
technical manager at Ford Werke GmbH in Cologne for the total vehicle engineering.
From 2006 to 2010, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang was Vice Director of the Clean Energy Automotive Engineering
Center at Tongji University in Shanghai, PRC, and Managing Director of Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle
Powertrain Co., Ltd.
Since 2011, he has been the Director of the Clean Energy Automotive Engineering Center at Tongji University
in Shanghai, PRC, and Director of the National Fuel Cell Vehicle and Powertrain System Engineering
Research Center.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang is a member of the Schaeffler AG Supervisory Board and has been an independent
member of the Executive Board of Nanjing IKAKAT Co., Nanjing, PRC, since 2016.
He received the Shanghai Science and Technology Award in 2007 and the China Science and Technology
Award in 2008. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tong Zhang was elected by the China’s “Thousand Talent People" Program in
2009 and won the Shanghai Expo Contribution Award in 2010.