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Yun Zhou is a research fellow at the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program. Her current research interests include international security implications under a global nuclear expansion scenario and alternative nuclear technologies such as small reactor designs without on-site refueling for developing countries. Prior to this appointment, she was a MacArthur science and technology fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, where she examined China's nuclear energy policy and industry and analyzed security implications of China's nuclear energy growth. She received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006. She has been a researcher at Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab and at General Atomics and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School in 2004. She has worked on a wide variety of research studies including nuclear material safety under dry storage, health risk assessment associated with the introduction of genetically modified crops, ecosystem dynamics, and biodiversity loss.