Ling Zhou is a Professor at the College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering at Hohai University. He has been a visiting scholar. He was invited by Prof. Joseph Lee to visit The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He worked with Prof. Bryan Karney at the University of Toronto. He was invited to act as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), and as the Topic Editor of the journal, Water. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the 13th International Conference on Pressure Surges 2018 (BHR Group) and the reviewer of 20+ SCI-indexed journals, including theJournal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE), the Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), etc. His research interests include hydraulic transients in the pipe system, hydraulics in a hydropower/pump/pumped storage station, and transient flow in urban storm sewers. As a principal investigator, Ling Zhou was awarded 25 research grants and two travel grants, including three funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one fund from the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation, and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China, etc. Ling Zhou has published more than 80 papers, of which 40 articles are indexed by the SCI. As the first author or the corresponding author, he published 20+ papers in the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE), the Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), and the Journal of Hydro-Environment Research.