Weiqi Zhou

Beijing

Dr. Weiqi Zhou is a Professor of urban ecology at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, and the deputy director of the Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station, a long-term ecological research station focusing on the Beijing urban ecosystem. He is also the vice president of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE), China Chapter. Dr. Zhou got his Ph.D. from the University of Vermont. Before he joins the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Zhou is broadly interested in urban and landscape ecology with respect to spatial heterogeneity of the landscape. He integrates field observations, remote sensing and modeling to understand the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function. He works across many disciplines including landscape ecology, urban ecology, remote sensing, and GIS, and interacts with various collaborators from different fields through his involvement with various collaborative projects. The interdisciplinarity of his work has allowed him to develop innovative approaches and tools to better understanding the structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its link to ecological function. He serves as an editorial board member for the journals Landscape Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal of Urban Ecology, and Ecosystem Health and Sustainability.