Research direction: Green and low-carbon architecture design; building environmental regulation; climate adaptability and dynamic thermal comfort of vernacular dwellings

Wenzhou Zhong is an Associate Researcher at the School of Architecture, Southeast University. He earned his doctorate through the direct-track Ph.D. program at Southeast University after completing his bachelor's degree there, and subsequently served as a Zhishan Postdoctoral Fellow. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Institute of Science Tokyo), Japan.

His research focuses on green and low-carbon architecture design. He has led 7 national, provincial, and ministerial research grants, and participated in 4 national-level projects, including the National Key R&D Program during the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plan periods and the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 20 papers in journals such as Architectural Journal and Sustainable Cities and Society, and serves as a reviewer for several SCI journals and international and domestic conferences across interdisciplinary fields. He is the author of the monograph Form and Energy: Architectural Model of Environmental Regulation. He holds multiple invention patents and software copyrights, and has received 9 major international and domestic awards, including prizes in the ARCASIA Architecture Design Competition and the National Green Building Design Competition. His design works have been exhibited multiple times at the Venice Architecture Biennale.