Since 2015.06: Research Assistant in CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
2015.02: Dr. rar. nat. in Geosciences, Georg-August University of G?ttingen
2011.07: Master in Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008.07: Bachelor in Geology (Paleontology), Nanjing University, China
Paleobiology of poriferans; microbial carbonates; interaction between metazoans and the microbial system in geological history
Tilly Edinger Prize, 2013
PhD scholarship (36 months) from Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), 2011–2014
National Natural Science Funds of China (Grant No. 41602001), A study on the Cambrian keratose demosponge fossils,2017/01-2019/12
Luo C,Zhu M-Y. (2010) A brief review of the Precambrian “metazoan fossils” from North China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 49 (3): 288-307. (in Chinese)
Luo C, Reitner J (2014) First report of fossil "keratose" demosponges in Phanerozoic carbonates: preservation and 3-D reconstruction. Naturwissenschaften, 101(6):467–77.
Luo C, Sch?fer N, Duda J-P, Li L-X (2014) Preservation of organic matter in sponge fossils: a case study of “round sponge fossils” from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota with Raman spectroscopy. G?ttingen Contributions to Geosciences, 77: 29–38.
Luo C, Reitner J (2016) “Stromatolites” built by sponges and microbes – a new type of Phanerozoic bioconstruction. Lethaia, 49:555–570.
Luo C, Zhu M, Reitner J (2016) Jinxian Biota revisited: taphonomy and body plan of the Neoproterozoic discoid fossils from southern Liaodong Peninsula, North China. PalZ, 90:205–224.
Reitner J, Luo C, Duda J-P (2012) Early sponge remains from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian phosphate deposits of the Fontanarejo area (Central Spain). 17th Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy & Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Kaili Biota. Guizhou. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Sciences), 29 (Sup. 1): 184-186(extended abstract)