Research areas:

        Palaeoentomology and Mesozoic stratigraphy; Jehol Biota; Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems; amber biotas.

Professional services:

        Associate Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Stratigraphy

        Editorial board member: PLoS ONE, Palaeoentomology

Selected publications:

Zhang Haichun, Wang Bo, Fang Yan. 2015. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Insects from Northern China. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers. 229pp. (in Chinese).

Zheng Daran; Wang He; Li Sha; Wang Bo; Jarzembowski E. A.; Dong Chong; Fang Yanan; Teng Xiao; Yu Tingting; Yang Lichao; Li Yuling; Zhao Xiangdong; Xue Naihua; Chang Su-chin; Zhang Haichun. 2021. Synthesis of a chrono- and biostratigraphical framework for the Lower Cretaceous of Jiuquan, NW China: Implications for major evolutionary events, Earth-Science Reviews, 213: 103474

Wang Bo, Rust J., Engel M.S., Szwedo J., Dutta S., Nel A., Fan Yong, Meng Fanwei, Shi Gongle, Jarzembowski E.A., Wappler T., Stebner F., Fang Yan, Mao Limi, Zheng Daran, Zhang Haichun. 2014. A Diverse Paleobiota in Early Eocene Fushun Amber from China. Current Biology, 24: 1606–1610. 

Zhang Haichun, Zheng Daran, Wang Bo, Fang Yan, Jarzembowski E.A. 2013. The largest known odonate in China: Hsiufua chaoi Zhang et Wang, gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58(13): 1579–1584.

Zhang Haichun, Wang Bo, Fang Yan. 2010. Evolution of insect diversity in the Jehol Biota. Science China Earth Sciences 53(12): 1894-1907.

Zhang Haichun, Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2008. Middle Jurassic Praeaulacidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 (4): 463–487.

Zhang Haichun, Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2007. Nevaniinae subfam. N., a new fossil taxon (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Praeaulacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia, China. Insect Systematics & Evolution. 38: 149–166. 

Zhang Haichun, Rasnitsyn, A. P.  2004. Pelecinid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) from the Mesozoic of Russia and Mongolia. Cretaceous Research, 25(6)：807-825. 

Zhang Haichun, Rasnitsyn, A. P. Zhang Junfeng. 2002. Pelecinid wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research, 23(1): 87-98.