Qixin Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Corrosion Engineering at The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA. She received her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology in 2006, an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2009, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University in 2014. Her research interests include advanced coating development for corrosion protection, coating synthesis, formulation, and characterization, coating evaluation and failure analysis, coating service lifetime prediction, pipeline corrosion, pipeline coating, corrosion monitoring and analysis.