Director of the Department of International Politics, School of International Relations, Nanjing University; Deputy Dean of the Regional and Country Studies Institute, Nanjing University; Associate Professor

Ph.D. graduate from the School of International Relations, Peking University; Joint Ph.D. program student at the University of Tübingen, Germany; Visiting Scholar at the Free University of Berlin.

Primary research areas include Chinese diplomacy, ethnicity and nationalism, European integration, and the "Tibet issue" in international relations.

Prof. Zhao selected as the third-level training target of Jiangsu Province’s "333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project", leading two projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, and two projects supported by the Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province. Published over 40 papers in journals such as "International Politics Studies," "Ethnic Studies," "China’s Borderland History and Geography Studies," and "German Studies." The monograph "Imagining Tibet: Germany's Image of Tibet and Its Historical Origins" will be published soon by China Tibetology Press.