Xiangyan Zhou, PhD, is an associate professor and Master's tutor at the College of Life Science and Technology/State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University. In June 2006, she graduated from the College of Life Science and Technology of Inner Mongolia Normal University with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences. In June 2009, she graduated from the College of Life Science and Technology of Gansu Agricultural University with a Master of Science degree and stayed at the school to teach. In December 2016, she obtained a doctorate in crop genetics and breeding from Gansu Agricultural University. She was promoted to lecturer in 2012 and appointed to associate professor in 2018. Her research directions are crop stress physiology and molecular biology, and plant biotechnology breeding.