Zhou Yiqi is an associate Senior Fellow at SIIS. His research interests include conflict studies, Middle East security, international political theory, and research methodology. He has published a number of papers in prominent Chinese journals such as World Economy and Politics, International Security Studies, and Global Review. He was awarded a Young Fellowship under the National Social Science Found of China in 2022. He worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Social Science, Ohio State University in 2017-2018, and as a Nonresident Fellow at the the Institute for Peace Research, Frankfurt, Germany from February to September 2023.