1990-09--1993-06 PhD in Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1987-09--1990-06 Master's Degree, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1983-09--1987-06 Bachelor's Degree, Changchun Institute of Geology
2001-07--Present, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctoral Supervisor
2000-11--2002-05, Technical University of Berlin, Department of Applied Geosciences, Max Planck Scholar
1998-12--Present, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Researcher
1996-07--1997-02, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, Visiting Researcher
1994-06--1998-11, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Researcher
1993-07--1994-05, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Researcher
2016: State Council Special Allowance, National
2014: National 'Millions of Talents' Project, First Prize, National
2013: Jiangsu Province 333 High-Level Talent Project, Provincial
2008: Cambrian and Ordovician Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) and Chronostratigraphic Division, Second Prize, National
2006: Chinese Geological Society Youth Geological Science and Technology Award, First Prize, National
2005: Jiangsu Province Outstanding Contribution Middle-aged and Young Expert, First Prize, Provincial
2000: Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Youth, First Prize, Academy
1999: Jiangsu Province Young Scientist Award, First Prize, Provincial
1999: Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Postdoctoral, First Prize, Academy
1998: Ordovician Darriwilian Stage Boundary Stratotype and Comparison of Chinese Ordovician System, Second Prize, Ministry
1993: Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Scholarship, First Prize, Academy
Research
Early Paleozoic stratigraphy and graptolite fauna Early Paleozoic paleogeography Early Paleozoic biological events and environmental changes
First documentation of Middle Ordovician warm-water carbonates in the Mount Jolmo Lungma (Mount Everest) area, southern Xizang (Tibet), China, and its paleogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
Filling the gap between the Cambrian Explosion and the GOBE — Proceedings of the IGCP 653 Annual Meeting 2017 in Yichang, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
Early Evolution of Marine Planktonic and Nektonic Ecosystems: Questions and Chinese Approaches, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China, Yuandong Zhang, 2019
A candidate stem-group rossellid (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the latest Ordovician Anji Biota, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
Biostratigraphical constraints on the disconformity within the Upper Ordovician in the Baoshan and Mangshi regions, western Yunnan Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
Biostratigraphical evidence for the timing of the Miaopo Formation boundary in the Middle Yangtze Region, Ordovician System, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
Conodonts and their stratigraphic significance in the Upper Ordovician Guniutan Formation to Pagoda Formation in the Yichang area, Hubei Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
Radiolarian fauna of the Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation in the Lunshan area of Jiangsu Province and the Yichang area of Hubei Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2018
Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology, Part V, Second Revision, Chapter 18: Order Graptoloidea and Family Anisograptidae: Introduction, Morphology, and Systematic Descriptions., Yuandong Zhang, 2017
Flourishing sponge-based ecosystems after the End-Ordovician mass extinction, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
Discovery of missing link between demosponges and hexactinellids confirms palaeontological model of sponge evolution, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
A quantitative study of the Ordovician cephalopod species Sinoceras chinense (Foord) and its palaeobiogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
Reconstruction of a shallow intraplatform depression by microfacies analysis of the Upper Ordovician Miaopo and Datianba formations in the northwestern Yangtze Region, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
Llandovery graptolite fauna and its individual development from the Datianba Formation in western Hunan Province, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2017
Huaiyuan Epeirogeny —Shaping Ordovician stratigraphy and sedimentation on the North China Platform, Yuandong Zhang, 2016
Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Tarim Basin, NW China, Yuandong Zhang, 2016
Early Ordovician conodonts from Zhejiang Province, southeast China and their biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic implications, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
Carbon isotope records of the Middle–Upper Ordovician transition in Yichang area, South China, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
Floian (Early Ordovician) conodont-based biostratigraphy and biogeography of the Australasian Superprovince, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
A long-overdue systematic revision of Ordovician graptolite faunas from New South Wales, Australia, Yuandong Zhang, 2015
A preliminary study on the relationship of the early dicranograptids based on cladistic analysis, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
Graptolite fauna of the Hungshihyen Formation (Early Ordovician), eastern Yunnan, China, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
New conodont material from the Early Ordovician Banqiao section in Lin'an, Zhejiang, and its significance, Yuandong Zhang, 2014
The age of the Hongshiyao Formation, Ordovician System, in eastern Yunnan Province, Yuandong Zhang, 2013
