Dr Shaobo Zhou is an Associate Professor in Nutrition and Health Science at the University of Greenwich and a Programme Leader for the BSc Human Nutrition and Health—an Association for a Nutrition-accredited course. He completed his PhD in Nutrition at the Chinese National Key Department of Nutrition after receiving his MD training at Harbin Medical University and an MSc in zinc nutrition. Dr Zhou has received several recognitions, including awards from the Human Proteome Organisation for his work at King’s College London and from the Chinese Ministry of Health. He has completed projects on zinc nutrition, nutritional proteomics, and metabolomics funded by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, BBSRC, MRC, FSA, and the British Heart Foundation. He previously conducted research at the Chinese CDC, the University of Manchester, KCL, and Aberystwyth University. He is a Registered Nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition and serves as a member of the Specialty Committee of Brain Diseases under the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. Dr Zhou has published over 120 papers and serves on the editorial boards. He is a Fellow of both IFST and HEA. He has developed and led the BSc Food and Nutrition Science and MSc Food Security in Public Health programmes. His teaching disciplines include clinical and public health nutrition, as well as food and nutritional sciences. His research interests cover nutrition and ageing, cancer, diabetes, and sarcopenia.
