Dr. Mingming Zhou is currently Associate professor in Faculty of Education at University of Macau (UM). She also serves as Director of Educational Research Center at UM. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her research interests focus on goals, emotion, metacognition, identity, and other important psychological constructs related to education. She has thus far published nearly 90 peer-reviewed journal papers and received various awards from international conferences. She is also serving in the editorial team for major journals in the field of educational psychology, such as Educational Psychology, School Psychology International, and PlosOne.