Dr. Rui Zhou is an Associate Research Fellow and Master’s Supervisor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Guangdong Pharmaceutical University and a “Pazhou Scholar” at Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital. Her research focuses on epidemiological studies of cardiometabolic risk factors and aging-related diseases. She serves as a reviewer for multiple international journals and on the Youth Editorial Board of Guangdong Medical Journal. Dr. Zhou has led several funded projects, including those supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published 20 SCI papers as first or corresponding author in journals such as J Hepatology, with over 1,340 citations and an H-index of 21.