Introduction of PI
Dr. Zhou is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT), China. He obtained a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Neurobiology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, investigating the mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity. After completing his first postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University (2013–2016), he continued his scientific career as a Postdoc at New York University (2016–2018) and Columbia University (2018–2020) in United States. He was subsequently promoted to the position of research faculty at Columbia University (2020–2023). Since joining the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences at SUAT in 2023, he has established his independent research laboratory.
Dr. Zhou has been leading multiple national, provincial, and municipal research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program (2025–2028), the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation General Program (2025–2027), the Guangdong Higher Education Innovative Research Program in Natural Sciences (2025), and the Shenzhen Basic Research Key Project (2024–2027).
Since 2018, Dr. Zhou has served as an ad hoc peer reviewer for prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Molecular Psychiatry, Bioinformatics, Brain Research, and SLEEP Journal. He has been an editorial board member of Brain Research since 2022. His work has been recognized through invited talks at major international conferences, including the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSH-Asia), the Chinese Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (CCCN), the International Conference on Neuron and Brain Diseases (ICNBD), and the China Conference on Brain Science and Photonics.
