Professor Zhou is a physicist based at Purdue University, where he is a professor of physics and astronomy. His research interests include a wide range of topics in quantum gases and related fields, such as synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms, strongly interacting bosons and fermions, quantum many-body dynamics, and connections between few-body and many-body physics, among many others. Widely published in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, and Nature Communications, Qi Zhou received his PhD from Ohio State University and his BSc degree from Tsinghua University, China.