张晓辉，毕业于中国海洋大学海洋生命学院，取得海洋生物学博士学位。曾作为交换生公派到日本筑波大学做藻类碳代谢的研究。先后获得JSPS奖学金在日本早稻田大学从事蓝藻产氢的研究，于瑞典乌普萨拉大学从事氢代谢调控研究，在美国普度大学，从事蓝藻生物能源, 包括产氢和异戊二烯等的研究。
研究方向：藻类生物柴油，藻类生物能源, 合成生物学,水华藻类的控制
代表性论文：
David Welkie*, Xiaohui Zhang*, Meng L Markillie, Ronald Taylor, Galya Orr, Jon Jacobs, Ketaki Bhide, Jyothi Thimmapuram, Marina Gritsenko, Hugh Mitchell, Richard Smith and Louis A Sherman.2014.Transcriptomic and proteomic dynamics in the metabolism of a diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Cyanothece sp. PCC 7822 during a 24 hour light-dark cycle. BMC Genomics, 15:1185. ( * co-first author)
Xiaohui Zhang, Debbie Sherman and Louis Sherman.2014. The uptake hydrogenase in the unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Strain PCC 7822 protects nitrogenase from oxygen toxicity. J Bacteriol.(196):840-849.
Xiaohui Zhang and Louis Sherman. 2012. Alternate copies of D1 are used by cyanobacteria under different environmental conditions. hotosynthesis Research.114(2):133-5.
Agervald Asa*, Zhang Xiaohui*, Stensj? K, Devine E, Lindblad P. CalA, a cyanobacterial AbrB protein, interacts with the upstream region of hypC and acts as a repressor of its transcription in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Feb;76(3):880-90.( * co-first author)
Hajime Masukawa, Xiaohui Zhang, Hidehiro Sakurai et. al Survey of the distribution of different types of nitrogenases and hydrogenases in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria. Marine Biotechnology, (2009) 11(3):397-409
Xiaohui Zhang, Xuecheng Zhang, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa et.al. Cloning and Characterization of hoxH Gene from Arthrospira and Spirulina and its Application in Phyloenetic Study. (2005) Marine Biotechnology, l7. 4287-96.
Xiaohui Zhang, Zhenghong sui, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa et.al Cloning and Characterization of [NiFe]-Hydrogenase gene from Arthrospira Platensis FACHB341 ( 2005) High Tech. Letters. Vol.11, NO.41, 400-405. (EI收录 )
获奖：
2005年, 螺旋藻/节旋藻基础研究、养殖和开发应用，教育部科技进步一等奖，(NO. 2004-135).
为知名杂志审稿，如：Bioresources Technology, Journal of Bacteriology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology。并且担任Frontiers in Marine Biotechnology和Frontiers in Synthetic Biology的编委。是美国微生物学会会员。