Zhou Yufeng is a Grade-II research fellow and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is a double-employed professor at the School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences of Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS.

In 2002, he graduated from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Munich and Technical University of Dortmund in Germany, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan, and the Advanced Research Center of South Korea.

He returned to China in 2009 and is currently a research fellow and Director of the First Research Office.

He has presided over many fund-supported projects such as the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and is a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions awarded by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

His research fields mainly involve new physics in which dark matter exceeds the standard model, the origin of baryon-antibaryon asymmetry in the new physical model, models and phenomenological studies of CP violation, etc.