Prof. Zhu Ling is a Professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies of the PolyU. Prof. Zhu is specialised in maritime law. Her research interest covers the topics including shipping law, multimodal transportation law, and marine pollution law, as well as several cutting-edge topics such as unmanned and autonomous shipping, and the dematerialization of maritime transport documents. Prof. Zhu has attracted research fundings from several organisations, including the Research Grants Council (RGC), Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) and Central Policy Unit (CPU) of the Hong Kong SAR. She has also published extensively in her research areas, with her work appearing in leading journals such as Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, The Journal of Business Law, Ocean Development and International Law, Marine Policy, among others. Prof. Zhu obtained her PhD (Law, magna cum laude) from the University of Hamburg, Germany and her LLM from the University of Southampton, UK.