Key Laboratory of Zoological and Systematics and Evolution_Molecular Systematics and Evolution of Beetles

Prof. ZHOU Hong-Zhang
TEL: 86-10-6480 7252 (office)
Email：zhouhz@ioz.ac.cn
Address: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Siences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P.R.China

Date of birth: Apr.12.1960
Position: Researcher, Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
　　　　　Professor, the Graduated School，the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic degree: Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor degree of natural sciences), University of Koln, Germany.
Specialty: Insect Taxonomy and Systematics, Evolutionary Biology, Biodiversity Science.
Academic activity: member of editorial board of Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, Fauna of China, Chinese Biodiversity, and Entomologia Sinica member of the Entomological Society of China, the International Society of Coleopterists.

On-going projects:
State Key Basic Research and Development Plan: "Dynamics and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity and Regional Ecological Security in the Yangtze Valley". Major program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) "Biodiversity and its protection in some key regions in China".
Fauna Sinica, volume Histeridae, Coleoptera.
National Natural Science Foundation of China: "Phylogeny and functional morphology of the subfamiles of Staphylinidae.

Projects finished:
A total of fifteen different projects have been completed in the last ten years. These projects were supported both by the national and international organizations and governments. The researches were mainly concerned molecular systematics and evolution of insects, beetle taxonomy of Staphylinidae, Histeridae, Syntelidae, Carabinae, and Eumolpidae, Species diversity and Forensic Entomology