Liqi Zhu is a professor of at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Behavioral Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the deputy director of the Academic Degrees Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the director of the Chinese Psychological Association.

Dr. Zhu’s main research interests are cognitive development and social behavior development. She has been leading or has participating in a number of National Natural Science Foundation projects, 973 projects, key deployment projects of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and international cooperation projects. She has published in the top journals such as "Child Development", "Cognition" and , "Psychological Science", etc. She is currently the China Regional Coordinator of the International Association for Behavioral Development (ISSBD), the deputy editor of Child Development, the deputy editor of the International Journal of Psychology and the editor of the Journal of Psychology, Psychological Science and Progress in Psychological Science.