2021.12–present, Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2020.10–2021.12, Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong

2018.10–2020.09, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong

2015.09–2018.12, Doctor of Philosophy in Geochronology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong

2011.09–2015.07, Master of Science in Geobiology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006.09–2010.07, Bachelor of Engineering in Resources Exploration Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology

Integrating of palaeontology, stratigraphy, geochronology and geochemistry in understanding terrestrial creature evolution responded to global environmental events through Earth time.

PI, Spatio-temporal evolution and driving mechanism of Jehol Biota, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

1.            Zhang, L., Zheng, D.*, Chang, S.-C., Fang, Y., Li, Y., Wang, B., Zhang, H., 2022. New age constraints on the early Jehol Biota of Luanping, northeastern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585, 110748.

2.            Zhao, X., Zheng, D.*, Wang, H., Fang, Y., Xue, N., Zhang, H., 2021. Carbon cycle perturbation and mercury anomalies in terrestrial Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b from Jiuquan Basin, NW China. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 521, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP521-2021-149.

3.            Zheng, D., Wang, H., Li, S., Wang, B., Jarzembowski, E.A., Dong, C., Fang, Y., Teng, X., Yu, T., Yang, L., Li, Y., Zhao, X., Xue, N., Chang, S.-C., Zhang, H., 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.

4.            Zheng, D., Chang, S.-C., Algeo, T., Zhang, H., Wang, B., Wang, W., Wang, J., Feng, C., Xu, H., 2020. Age constraint for an earliest Famennian forest and its implications for Frasnian-Famennian boundary in West Junggar, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 552, 10749.

5.            Zhao, X., Zheng, D. (co-first author), Xie, G., Jenkyns, H.C., Guan, C., Fang, Y., He, J., Yuan, X., Xue, N., Wang, H., Li, S., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zhang, H., Wang, B., 2020. Recovery of lacustrine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, 48 (6): 609–613.

6.            Zheng, D., Shi, G., Hemming, S.R., Zhang, H., Wang, W., Wang, B., Chang, S.-C., 2019. Age constraints on a Neogene tropical rainforest in China and its relation to the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 518: 82–88.

7.            Zheng, D., Nel, A., Zhang, H., Chang, S.-C., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zhuo, D., Wang, B., 2019. A highly diverse coenagrionoid damselfly group (Odonata: Zygoptera: Burmacoenagrionidae fam. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17 (3): 239–253.

8.            Zheng, D., Chang, S.-C., Perrichot, V., Dutta, S., Rudra, A., Mu, L., Kelly, R.S., Li, S., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Q.Q., Wong, J., Wang, J., Wang, H., Fang, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, B., 2018. A Late Cretaceous amber biota from central Myanmar. Nature Communications, 9: 3170.

9.            Zheng, D., Chang, S.-C., Wang, H., Fang, Y., Wang, H., Feng, C., Xie, G., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zhang, H., Wang, B., 2018. Middle-Late Triassic insect radiation revealed by diverse fossils and isotopic ages from China. Science Advances, 4: eaat1380.

10.       Zheng, D., Xu, H., Wang, J., Feng, C., Zhang H., Chang, S.-C., 2016. Geochronologic age constraints on the Middle Devonian Hujiersite flora of Xinjiang, NW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 463, 230–237.