西北大学地质学系教授、博士生导师，教育部长江学者特聘教授、杰青、中组部万人计划和科技部中青年科技创新领军人才，全国优秀博士学位论文获得者，主要从事寒武纪大爆发与腕足动物及其冠轮动物谱系演化研究，现为国家重点研发首席科学家、陕西省重点科技创新团队和三秦英才创新创业团队负责人，主持完成国家杰出青年科学基金、国际（地区）重点研究基金和基金委重大项目课题等多个国家级重点项目，参与国家基金委群体项目和科技部项目等多个重大项目。研究成果先后获陕西高校科学技术奖一等奖，教育部自然科学奖一等奖和国家自然科学奖二等奖等。中国古生物学会副理事长、陕西省古生物学会理事长等职，指导的博士研究生先后2人获陕西省优秀博士学位论文，1人入选国家人才，1人获博新计划B类，2名博士后获博士后特别资助。

社会兼职：

美国古生物学报（Journal of Paleontology）副主编

远古世界（Palaeoworld）副主编

中国古生物学报（Acta Palaeontologica Sinica）副主编

英国地质学杂志（Geological Journal）副主编

中国古生物学会副理事长

陕西省古生物学会理事长

主持国家重点研发项目“寒武纪大爆发诱因和生态重建（2023YFF0803601）”

主持完成科研项目主持国家杰出青年科学基金（）  

寒武纪大爆发时期生态类型多样性及其营养结构研究（）

41720104002主持国家自然科学基金面上项目（）

G40702003主持教育部全国优秀博士学位论文作者专项基金（）

NCET-11-1046主持第十二届霍英东青年教师基金项目（）

41621003Special Issue in : Cambrian Explosion and Construction of the First Animal Consumer-Driven Marine Ecosystem on EarthCollections and Topics in MDPI journals

发表论文及著作（通讯作者）：

1. ****., Iotubadenotes an early annelid radiation. Proceedings of Royal Society B: 20222014.

2. *Lingulellotreta18(11): 945-973. . 2023. Evolutionary contingency in lingulid brachiopods across mass extinctions. Current Biology 33(8): 15651572.

3. Zhang, Z.F.HStrotz, L.C, Knaust, D., Wang, J.Y., Liang, Y.Zhang, Z.F. 202. DistiFang, R.S., Liang, Y., Chen, Y.L., Liu, F., Hua, H., Holmer, L.E., *, 2022. Late Ediacaran cavity-dwelling filamentous microorganisms accommodated in a valve-like organism from the uppermost Dengying Formation in eastern Yunnan of South China. Precambrian Research, 379: 106820.

4. * Zhang Z F^.*Nature599: 251-255. (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04033-w)

5. Zhang, Z.F.Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., * 2022. A fresh look at the hyolithid  from the Early Cambrian (Stage 4) Shipai Formation of the Three Gorges Area, Hubei, South China. Biology 11(6), 875.  

6. Zhang, Z.F.Hu, Y.Z., Holmer, L.E., Liang, Y., Duan, X.L. & *Hu, Y.Z., Knaust, D., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *Duan X.L., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., * 2021. Soft part preservation in hyolithids from the lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Biota of South China and its implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 562(2021)110079. 

7. Zhang, Z.F., 2021. Go large or go conical: Allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachopod. Palaeontology 64(5): 727-741. 

8. Zhang, Z.F*.Duan X.L., Betts, M.J., Holmer, L.E., Chen, Y.L., Liu, F., Liang, Y., & *Hu, Y.Z., Knaust, D., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & *. 2021. Burrows filled with faecal pellets from theCambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan biota of South China and their palaeoecological implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 567(2):110249. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110249

9. Duan X.L., Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E. & . 2021. First report of acrotretoid brachiopod shell beds in the lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Biota of eastern Yunnan, South China. Journal of Paleontology , doi: 10.1017/jpa.2020.66 

10. Zhang, Z.F. 2021. Early Cambrian (Stage 4) brachiopods from the Shipai Formation in the Three Gorges area of South China. Journal of Paleontology 95(1):  Zhang, Z.L., Ghobadi Pour, M., Popov, L.E., Holmer, L.E., Chen, F.Y., Chen, Y.L., Brock, G.A.,  2021. The oldest Cambrian trilobite-brachiopod association in South China. Gondwana Research 89(2021): 147-167.Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B., Duan, X.Zhang, Z.F.Heliomedusa orientaLethaia  https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12379Liang, Y., Holmer, L. E., Hu, Y.Z.,*First report of brachiopods with soft parts from the Lower Cambrian Latham Shale (series 2, stage 4), California. Science Bulletin . 

11. Zhang, Z.F.& Shu, D.G. 2020. Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates? 7(2):  

12. Zhang, Z.F.Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P.,  * 2020., Zhang, Z.F.*, 2020. Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, Wuding County, eastern Yunnan. Journal of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-043

13. Zhang, Z.FChen, F.Y., *, Betts, M.J., Zhang, Z.L., Liu, F., 2019. First report on Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Stage 4) at the stratotype area of Wulongqing Formation in Malong County, Eastern Yunnan. Geoscience Frontiers 10: 1459-1476. Zhang Z.F*Zhang, Z.F., Holmer, L. E., Brock, G. A., Topper, T. P., 2018. Paleoecological complexities during Cambrian explosion: evidence from brachiopods. Permophiles 66 (Sup.1):131-132.

14. Zhang, Z.F. 2018. BMC evolutionary biology 18: 42.

15. Zhang, Z.F*Zhang, Z.L., Skovsted, C.B., . 2018. A hyolithid without helens preserving the oldest hyolith muscle scars: palaeobiology of from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Cambrian Series 2) of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 487: 1-14.

16. Zhang, Z.F.Hopkins M J*, Chen F Y, Hu S X, . 2017. The oldest known digestive system consisting of both paired digestive glands and a crop from exceptionally preserved trilobites of the Guanshan Biota (Early Cambrian, China). PlosOne, 2017, 12(9):e0184982.

17. *., Zhang, Z.L., Li, G.X., Holmer, L.E. 2016. The Cambrian brachiopod fauna from the first-trilobite age Shuijingtuo Formation in the Three Gorges area of China. Palaeoworld 25:333-355.

18. Zhang Z.F, Wang H. 2016. Epithelial cell moulds preserved in the earliest acrotretid brachiopods from the Cambrian (Series 2) of the Three Gorges area, China. GFF 138(4): 455-466.

19. *WiwaxiaScientific Reports Zhang Z.F., Zhang, Z.L., Holmer, L.E., Li, G.X. 2015. First report of linguloid brachiopods with soft parts from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of the Three Gorges area, South China. Zhang Z.F.Scientific reports Wang, HZ., *Zhang Z.F.Zhang Z.F., Holmer, L.E., Popov, L.E., Shu D.G. 2011a. Zhang Z.F.LongtancunellaZhang Z.F.,Wang, H.Z., ., Holmer, L.E., Hu, S.X., Wang, X.R., Li, G.X., 2012. Peduncular attached secondary tiering acrotretoid brachiopods from the Chengjiang fauna: Implications for the ecological expansion of brachiopods during the Cambrian explosion, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 323-325:60-67.

20. F., Holmer, L.E. 2013. Hu, S.X., *. Holmer, L.E., and Skovsted, C.B.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Zhang, Z.F., Han, J., Wang, Y., Emig, C.C. and Shu, D.G. 2010. Epibionts on the lingulate brachiopod Diandongia from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China. , Zhang, Z.F. Li, G.X., Emig, C.C., Han, J., Holmer, L.E., Shu, D.G. 2009. Architecture and function of the lophophore in the problematic brachiopod (Early Cambrian, South China). Geobios, 42: 649-661.

21. *Early Cambrian radiation of brachiopods: A perspective from South ChinaGondwana ResearchZhang, Z.F., Shu, D.G., Han, J. & Liu, J.N. 2007a: A gregarious lingulid brachiopod from the Lower Cambrian, South China. 40 (1): 11–18.

22. *, Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2007b. LingulellotretaActa ZoologicaZhang, Z.F., Shu D.G., Emig, C.C., Zhang, X.L., Han, J., Liu, J.N., Li, Y., Guo, J.F.2007c. Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte of South China. Palaeontology, 50 (6): 1391-1402.

23. *New data on the rare Chengjiang (Lower Cambrian, South China) linguloid brachiopod . Journal of Paleontology 80:203-211.

24. * 

25. * Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G.2004a. Soft-tissue preservation in the Lower Cambrian linguloid brachiopod from South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49: 259-266.

26. *, Han, J, Zhang, X. L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2003. Pediculate brachiopod from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 77: 288-293.

27. *, Shu, D. G., Han, J. and Liu, J. N. 2004b. New data on the lophophore anatomy of Early Cambrian linguloids from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Southwest China. , Letter: 1-7.

28. Clausen, S., Popov, L., Ghobadi Pour, M., Liang, Y., Zhang, Z., Buitrón-Sánchez, B. 2022. Cambrian (Stage 4 to Wuliuan) brachiopods from Sonora, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology, 1-21. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.35. 

29. *, Blodgett, R.B., Liang, Y. &2020. The Early Devonian (Emsian) acrotretid microbrachiopod Opsiconidion minor Popov, 1981, from the Alaska/Yukon Territory border and Novaya Zemlya. Estonian journal of earth sciences, 69(3), 143-153. 

30. *, Popov, L. E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Klishevich, I. A., Liang, Y. & . 2020. Linguliform brachiopods from the cambrian (guzhangian) karpinsk formation of novaya zemlya. Papers in Palaeontology (3):1-22.

31. Zhang, Z.F.YanjiahellaLi, G.X. Zhang, Z.F.Rong, J.Y. and Liu, D.Y., 2017. Cambrian brachiopod genera on type species of China. In: Rong J.Y., Jin Y.G., Shen S.Z. and Zhan R.B. (eds), Phanerozoic brachiopod Genera of China. Beijing: Science Press, 39-85.

32. Zhang, Z.F. Aulonotreta Topper, T. P*., Guo, J., Clausen, S., Skovsted, C. B., &  2019. A stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian of China and the origins of Ambulacraria. Nature communications, 10(1), 1366.

33. *., Kebria-EE Zadeh, M. R., Popov, L. E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Álvaro, J. J., Hairapetian, V., & Zhang, Z.F. 2019. Cambrian rhynchonelliform nisusioid brachiopods: phylogeny and distribution. Papers in Palaeontology 5(3): 559-575.

34. *, Popov, L.E. Ghobadi Pour, M., , Zhang, Z-L., Brock, G.A. & . 2018. Evolutionary significance of a middle Cambrian (Series 3) occurrence of the pedunculate rhynchonelliform brachiopod . 51:424-432.

35. *, Scholze F, Richoz S, . 2018. A unique Middle Triassic conodont assemblage from the Germanic Basin: multi-element apparatus, systematics, and biogeographic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Topper, T. P., ., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., & Harper, D. A. T. 2018. . Lethaia 51:254-266.

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