Dr. Zhou is a professor and PhD supervisor in the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, the editor-in-chief of the national core journal Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, and a visiting scholar of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. His main research interests include diagnosis and prevention and control of animal infectious diseases; teaching courses such as "Swine Pathology", "Veterinary Bioproducts" and "Veterinary Biotechnology", etc. He has presided over many national research projects and published more than 60 papers. In the field of industry-academia research, he mainly carries out research work related to epidemic monitoring and disease detection in several large-scale pig farms in East China.