Ph.D., Professor

Address: College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092 China

Tel: 86-21-6598 2332

Prof. Ying Zhou is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Division of Planning and Academic Development at Tongji University. She served as Dean of the College of Civil Engineering from 2021 to 2026. She currently serves as Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering (SLDRCE), Director of the International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering (ILEE), and Director of the UNDP–TONGJI SDG Innovation Lab on Climate and Disaster Resilience (RISE Lab). She was Vice President of the Anti-Seismic Systems International Society (ASSISi) from 2019 to 2023.

Her research focuses on seismic resilience and intelligent disaster prevention of high-rise buildings. She has published more than 200 SCI-indexed journal papers, authored four academic books, holds over 50 invention patents, and is the Chief Editor of 5 Chinese standards. She received the China Youth Science and Technology Award (Special Prize), the New Cornerstone Science Foundation XPLORER PRIZE, and the New Zealand Sandy Cormack Commendation. Her sustained efforts in advancing seismic resilience and intelligent structural systems have been recognized with the First Class Award for Technological Invention, the First Class Award for Scientific and Technological Progress in Shanghai, and the First Class Outstanding Achievement Award of Ministry of Education of China.

Prof. Zhou is the Editor-in-Chief of Resilient Cities and Structures (RCS), Associate Editor of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (SDEE), and Field Editor of Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (JAABE).