Education

• Anhui Medical University                       2009-2013

   Bachelor of Sanitary Inspection

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology        2013-2015

   Master of Public Health           Supervisor: Prof. Xu Shunqing; xust@hust.edu.cn

• Hong Kong Baptist University                    2016-present

   PhD of Analytical Chemistry    Supervisor: Prof. Cai Zongwei;zwcai@hkbu.edu.hk

   Thesis title: Human Exposure to Benzotriazoles and Benzothiazoles during       Pregnancy and Health Implications

Skills

• Project Management: Proficiency in study design.

• Experimental Techniques: Method development and application of chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, cell culture, targeted metabolomics study.

• Instrumental Analysis: Specialized in mass spectrometry: ICP-MS,UHPLC-MS/MS,HRMS.

• Statistical Software: Expertise in SAS, SPSS, Simca, Stata, and R.

• Academic Ability: Good at academic writing, critical review, and presentation.

• Teaching Experience: Serve as a laboratory teaching assistant and in charge of the undergraduate final year project.

• Peer review: Journal of hazardous materials, Science of the total environment, Environmental toxicology & pharmacology

• Peer tutor: Provide tutorial service to research student

Professional experience

Internship

• 2012 Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• 2014 Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Prospective Cohort study | 2013-2015

State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health | Wuhan

• Recruited the study subjects and collected the biological samples.

• Established the sample database.

• Administered the questionnaire via phone call to follow up the subjects.

• Examined the body burden of heavy metals in urine sample using ICP-MS.

Gestational chemical exposure and risk assessment | 2016-present

State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis | Hong Kong

• Developed the method to quantify the levels of environmental pollutants and steroid hormones in urine sample using UHPLC-MS/MS.

• Characterized the exposure profile of benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles (BTs) among pregnant women in Wuhan, China.

• Evaluated the relationship between BTs exposure in early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus.

• Investigated the association between exposure to BTs and fetal growth.

• Identified the metabolic biomarkers in urine sample that were associated with BTs exposure.

• Conducted the metabolomics study of benzothiazole exposure on MCF-7 cell.

Selected publications

• Zhou, Y., H. Liu, J. Li, S. Xu, Y. Li, H. Zhao, H. Jin, W. Liu, A. C. Chung & Y. Hong (2018) Profiles, variability, and predictors of urinary benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles in pregnant women from Wuhan, China. Environment international, 121, 1279-1288.

• Zhou Y, Qu J, Liu W, Liao J, Li Y, Zhao H, et al. 2019. Early pregnancy exposure to benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study. Environment international, 135:105360.

• Zhou, Y. & Z. Cai (2019) Determination of hormone in human urine by UHPLC‐TQMS. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.

• Zhou, Y., Y. Li, S. Xu, J. Liao, H. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Hong, W. Xia & Z. Cai (2020) Prenatal exposure to benzotraizoles and benzothiazoles in relation to fetal and birth size: A longitudinal study. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 398, 122828.

Selected Conferences

• HKSMS Symposium The 20th  & The 21th Annual General Meeting of The Hong Kong Society of Mass Spectrometry (30th June, 2018 & 22nd June, 2019, Hong Kong): Oral presentation

• ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (2^nd - 6^th June, 2019, Atlanta Georgia, USA): Poster presentation

• NCEC2019 & The 10^th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry (15^th - 19^th August, 2019, Tianjin, China): Oral presentation

• AOMSC 2020 - 8^th Asia-Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference (4^th - 7^th Jan, 2020, Macau): Oral presentation

Community activities

• Work as a volunteer at a charity agency (Food Angel).

• Write for the public on South China Morning Post in the hope of facilitating the process of boarding the biological and chemical samples in the Great bay.

• Conduct a seminar on scientific research publication.

Related websites

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P6hSd6sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• PubMed: