Zhou Yuyan graduated from Nanchang University with a Bachelor's degree in June 2011, and graduated from the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research with a doctorate in June 2018. He is a senior engineer, and the supervisor of off-campus Master's degree students of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University. He is engaged in the research of simulations of the water cycle in cold regions under climate change and the adaptive utilization of water resources. He has published 47 academic papers, including 26 SCI papers with 300 citations, and 13 papers as the first (corresponding) author. He has co-authored one monograph, and personally authored about 35,000 words, as well as authorizing ten invention patents and four utility model patents. He was selected for the 2022 Science and Technology Think Tank Young Talent Program of China Association for Science and Technology, and was selected as one of the sixth batch of talents of the Ministry of Water Resources "group-type" cadres in aid of Tibet. He received the 2021 Outstanding Employee Award, and the Excellent Award of the Eighth Youth Academic Exchange Conference of the China Academy of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. He has served as an invited reviewer for journals on Hydrology, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Water Conservancy and Hydropower Technology, the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, Environmental Engineering, and other domestic and international journals.