Dr Zhao is ISF Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, and Needham Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She completed her BA, MPhil and PhD degrees in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her research takes a cross-cultural comparative perspective on the ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical traditions. She is contributor and co-editor of Ancient Greece and China Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and author of Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life (Oxford University Press, 2024). Dr Zhao has worked extensively in public outreach, having filmed for the BBC Documentary Story of China, been interviewed by the Guardian,and published a series of interviews with leading thinkers via her WeChat public account (jing yi fang tan “静一访谈”) and via journals and magazines.