Dr. Yong Zhou is a Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. His research fields include fractional differential equations, evolution equations and control theory. Zhou has published seven monographs in Springer, Elsevier, De Gruyter, World Scientific respectively, and more than three hundred research papers in international journals including Mathematische Annalen, Journal of Functional Analysis, Nonlinearity, Inverse Problems, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and so on. Zhou has undertaken five projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, and two projects from the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund. He won the second prize of Chinese University Natural Science Award in 2000, and the second prize of Natural Science Award of Hunan Province, China in 2017 and 2021. Zhou had worked as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics & Computing, Mathematical Inequalities & Applications, and an Editorial Board Member of Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis.