Cristina Zhou

Cristina Zhou is the Local Executive Director of the BFSU-UC Center for Sino-Lusophone Studies and the CASS-UC Center for China Studies at the University of Coimbra, where Cristina focuses on fostering cooperation between Chinese and Portuguese cultures. Additionally, Cristina Zhou serves as the Local Executive Director of the Confucius Institute and is a co-founder of the World Association for Chinese Studies. Involved in academia since 2013 as a lecturer in Chinese language and culture at the Universidade de Coimbra, Cristina Zhou holds a PhD in Literature and a Master's degree in Portuguese Literature, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from Shanghai International Studies University. Previous experience includes a role as a scholarship holder at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2013 to 2014.