Prof. Zhou is an assoicate professor of Wuhan University of Technologu. He is an expert of climate-responsive design in both urban planning and architecture, whose areas of expertise revolve around spatial analysis and climate modeling for cities at multi-scales and built environment studies at neighborhood scale. He has been granted as the Principal Investigator (PI) of a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project and a Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation project. He has also published more than 40 articles in internationally prestigious journals and Chinese core journals.