Deputy Director of United Institute of International Organizations in Law, Wuhan University; Deputy Director of Center for Economic Diplomacy Studies, Wuhan University; Associate Professor at Academy of International Law and Global Governance, Wuhan University.

Professor Zhou holds degrees in International Law from Wuhan University. She has served as a visiting scholar at University of Groningen in the Netherlands (2010),  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid of Spain (2011), University of Sheffield in the UK (2017) and was selected by United Nations International Law Fellowship Program project in 2017.

Her specialty is inter-disciplinary research of international law and international relations, international organizations and global governance. She has published several books and articles on International Relations, EU Foreign Law and International Law.