Prof. Xiaoqing Zhou is a Professor at the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University. She completed her PhD in Structural Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2002). She has been honored as a recipient of two General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has recently led projects on numerical simulation of concrete materials and structures against blast and impact, as well as damage assessment and identification. She has published over 60 journal papers. She serves as an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Protective Structures, a committee member of the Engineering Blasting and Explosion Mechanics Professional Committee of the Guangdong Society of Mechanics. Her teaching disciplines include core undergraduate courses in civil engineering, framework design, steel structure design, and graduation project supervision, and her research interests include numerical simulation of concrete materials and structures against blast and impact, damage assessment and identification, meso-scale analysis of concrete, and wave propagation and structure–blast interaction.