Yaolin Zhou, Director of the Academic Committee

PhD, Second-Grade Professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University. He is among the first group of "National Leading Talents in Archives" and "National Archives Experts", and was selected for the Hubei Province "Seven One Hundred" Talent Project. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Paris 1 and the French Centre for Research on the Conservation of Collections. He is a member of the Archival Science Teaching Steering Committee for Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, an executive director of the Archives Society of China, deputy director of the Archives Preservation Technology Committee of the Archives Society of China, deputy director of the Image Preservation Committee of the China Photosensitive Association, and a member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Archives Work.

He has led 1 major project, 1 key project and 2 general projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, and nearly 20 provincial and ministerial projects, including major projects of the Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. He has published more than 20 books and textbooks and more than 160 academic papers. He has received more than 10 awards, including 1 Third Prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, 1 Second Prize of the Hubei Provincial Government Development Award, and the Second Prize of the Excellent Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of the National Archives Administration of China.

Research interests: archival theory and methods, digital archives and modern technology.