Qi Zhou is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. His research interests include synthetic gauge fields for ultracold atoms, strongly interacting bosons and fermions, quantum nonequilibrium dynamics, and connections between few-body and many-body physics.

Zhou received his PhD degree from Ohio State University and his BSc. from Tsinghua University. His work has been widely published in journals such as the Physical Review and Nature Communications.