Xu-jie Zhou is deputy chief physician and associate researcher in the Department of Nephrology at Peking University First Hospital. He received his Ph.D. from Peking University and joined the Peking University First Hospital in August 2011. He is also a member of the Chinese Society of Nephrology, the Kidney Physiology Professional Committee of the Chinese Physiological Society, the Intestinal Flora branch of the Chinese Biophysical Society, etc., and serves as the deputy editor or editorial board of several journals. He has 134 publications with 7573 citations and an h-index of 25 (Scoups, 10 November 2023).