Guojie Zhang completed his Bachelor's degree at Xiamen University and received his PhD degree at Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He received a Marie-Curie International Fellowship (2012-2014), and started his tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen in 2015. He was promoted to Associate Professor and then Full Professor in 2017 (at the age of 35). He established the Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Copenhagen in 2020. Since 2022, he moved his lab to Zhejiang University as a Chair Professor and set up a new research Centre for Evolutionary and Organismal Biology. The major research interests of his group are in biodiversity genomics and genome evolution, driven by fascination of the enormous phylogenetic diversity of organisms and their extraordinary variation in morphology, physiology, and behavior. Prof. Zhang’s research programs address fundamental questions about the origin of species, including human evolution, using interdisciplinary approaches. His works have revealed molecular mechanisms underlying speciation and adaptation for a broad spectrum of animal taxa. His group is now trying to establish ants as model systems for interdisciplinary studies of social behaviour at the eco-evo-devo interface. He has been (co-) leading several international genomics consortia including the Bird 10K (b10k.genomics.cn), the Genome 10K (https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/), the Global Ant Genomics Alliance (antgenomics.dk), the Ruminant Genome Project, the Earth Biogenomic Program, and the Primate Genome Project. The results of his research frequently appear in high profile journals such as Science, Nature, Nature series journals and PNAS, and have been highlighted by public media such as the New York Times, National Geographic, BBC, Danmarks Radio, and the New Scientist. Guojie Zhang has published about 270 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. This included 22 articles in CNS as first or corresponding authors. Several of these papers were highlighted as cover-stories. Three of the projects that he led or co-led have been published as special issue in Science (the Avian phylogenomic project in 2014, the Ruminant genome project in 2019, and Primate genome project in 2023). Nature also highlighted the second phase milestone of the B10K project that he led when two papers were published back-to-back in the same issue of the 12th of November 2020. His Google Scholar h-index stands at 104 (>56,000 citations). He is the (co)-first author or senior (co-)corresponding author of 40% of his papers. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019 and 2020 in the Cross-Field category by Clarivate Analytics. His full publication list can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hcIDquMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.

Professor Guojie Zhang's research results can be found in the Publications list, and you can also visit personal homepage of Google Schloar and ORCID. So far, he has published more than 250 research papers in internationally renowned journals and 42 were published in Nature, Science, Cell, among which 23 were published as the first or corresponding author. With more than 40,000 citations in total, he has been selected as one of the world's most cited scholars for many consecutive years since 2018.