Linrui Zhong is a Visiting Student at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from January 2025 to August 2025.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China. Her research primarily focuses on social policies related to the ageing population and fertility. She has published several academic papers and has most recently worked on using artificial intelligence methods to advance her doctoral thesis. Her doctoral thesis aims to explore the effectiveness of social policies related to fertility through cross-country comparative analysis.