ZHOU Songping obtained his PhD at Dalhousie University in 1992 and had research positions at various universities in Europe, Asia and America during 1986-2008. He has led more than 10 national scientific programs and is currently a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. His research focuses on structural analysis, including function approximation theory, classical Fourier analysis, functional analysis, and functional equations.