Xiaoli Zhu has been devoting herself to mental health education for college students areas for more than 17 years in Nanjing Institute of Technology. She has proved herself to be a competent researcher and psychological consultant, presided over provincial, school-level research projects ,such as Information Overload and Post-traumatic Stress Related Covid-19 etc., and involved herself in the professional associations of Chinese Psychological Society and Jiangsu Psychological Society. Serving as the lecturer in her home college, she's in charge of teaching courses such as College Student Mental Health Education, Psychological Counseling and Diagnostic Techniques, Introduction to Psychology, College Student Psychology and Psychology of Youth.

Due to her strong interest in development psychology and dyslexia, she applied to be a visiting scholar for one-year stay to study and do research under Dr. Tim Fosker's supervision about the relationship between reading, speechreading and audio-visual integration in Individuals with developmental dyslexia.