• Research Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
  
• Professor, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professional Experiences

Education

Responsibilities in Professional Organizations

Research interests and ongoing projects (as leader)

• Ordovician to Early Devonian stratigraphy and historical geology
• Palaeontology and Palaeobiology: graptolites, conodonts and radiolarians
• Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimatology of Early Palaeozoic

Publications:

   More than 280 articles and 10 volumes. Citations >3777, H-index = 35 (Google Scholar)

   Some recent articles on O-S stratigraphy and palaeontology are listed below (*corr. author):

1.CHEN, Z.Y., CHEN, Q., WANG, G.X., FANG, X., TANG, P., YAN, G.Z., YUAN, W.W., HUANG, B., ZHANG, X.L., YAN, K., ZHANG, Y.D., WANG, Y. 2024. Integrative Silurian stratigraphy, biotas and palaeogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Science China Earth Sciences, 67(4): 1005–1035.

2.ZHANG, J.P.*, LI, C., ZHONG, Y.Y., WU, X.J., FANG, X., LIU, M., CHEN, D.Z., GILL, B.C., ALGEO, T.J., LYONS, T.W., ZHANG, Y.D., TIAN, H. 2024. Linking carbon cycle perturbations to the Late Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction: A modeling approach. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 631 (2024). 118635.

3.ZHANG, Y.D.*, ZHAN, R.B., ZHEN, Y.Y., et al. 2023. Regional synthesis of the Ordovician geology and stratigraphy of China. In: Servais, T. et al. (eds).  A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 2. Geological Society of London Special Publications, 533, 421–478.

4.SERVAIS, T.*, CASCALES-MIÑANA, B., HARPER, D.A.T., LEFEBVRE, B., MUNNECKE, A., WANG, W.H., ZHANG, Y.D. 2023. No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 623 (2023) 111592.

5.ZHEN Y.Y., SMITH, P.M.., ZHANG, Y.D., STRUSZ, D.L., PERCIVAL, I.G., BURROW, C.J., RUTLEDGE, J.M. AND TRIGG, S.J. 2023. Field guide and catalogue of Ordovician–Devonian fossils from the Cargelligo and Nymagee 1:250,000 mapping areas, central New South Wales. Quarterly Notes of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, 157: 1-83.

6.CHEN X., ZHANG, Y.D., LI, Y. AND FAN, J.X. 2022. Geological setting of the Ordovician and Silurian Strata of the Yangtze Platform. In: Chen X., Wang H.Y. and Goldman, D. (eds) Latest Ordovician to Early Silurian Shale Gas Strata of the Yangtze Region, China. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press. 11-24. (in English)

7.JEON, J., LI, Y., KERSHAW, S., CHEN, Z.Y., MA, J.Y., LEE, J. H., LIANG, K., YU, S.Y., HUANG, B., ZHANG, Y.D.* 2022. Nearshore warm-water biota development in the aftermath of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 603, 111182.

8.MUIR, L.A., ZHANG, Y.D.*, BOTTING, J.P., MA, X. 2022. Convergent evolution in planktic graptolites: independent origin of the dicranograptid morphology in the Hirnantian (latest Ordovician). Alcheringa, DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2021.2003430.

9.ZHANG, J.P., LI, C., ZHANG, Y.D. 2022. Geological evidences and mechanisms for oceanic anoxic events during the Early Paleozoic. Chinese Science Bulletin, doi: 10.1360/TB-2021-0535.

10.ZHANG, Y.D., ZHAN, R.B., et al. 2021. Ordovician Stratigraphy and Index Fossils of China. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press. 1-575. (book)

11.ZHANG, J.P., EDWARDS, C.T., DIAMOND, C.W., LYONS, T.W. ZHANG, Y.D. 2021. Marine oxygenation, deoxygenation, and life during the Early Paleozoic: An overview. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 584 (2021) 110715.

12.MUIR, L.A., ZHANG, Y.D.*, BOTTING, J.P., MA, X. 2020. Avitograptus species (Graptolithina) from the Hirnantian (uppermost Ordovician) Anji Biota of South China and the evolution of Akidograptus and Parakidograptus. Journal of Paleontology, 94(5): 955-965.