Hong-Cai

Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou (周宏才; born c. 1964) is a Chinese-American chemist and academic. He is the Davidson Professor of Science and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He was previously on the faculty of Miami University.

Zhou gained admission to Beijing Normal University at the age of 16, and took up a post as a lecturer there after receiving his bachelor's degree, teaching introductory chemical engineering classes. In 1996, at the age of 32, he stepped down from his post and chose to go abroad to pursue further studies. Zhou earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Texas A&M University in 2000, studying under F. Albert Cotton. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Miami University. He won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005 and received tenure in 2007. In 2008, Zhou moved to Texas A&M University. In 2014, he was made Davidson Professor of Science and a joint holder of the Davidson Chair in Science. He holds a Welch Chair in Chemistry.

Zhou's research group focuses on work with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). He was named to the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2015 database.