About Guojie Zhang: |
Professor Guojie Zhang is an expert in biodiversity genomics and ecological evolutionary genomics. He is currently a chair professor at Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University, and an adjunct professor at the University of Copenhagen and the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Xiamen University with a bachelor's degree in 2004. In 2010, he graduated from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree. Later, he went to the Center for Social Evolution at University of Copenhagen (top 50 in the world) as a visiting scholar. He was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2012. In 2015, he became the first tenured assistant professor in Denmark. In March 2017, he was appointed as a tenured associate professor, and in September of the same year.
Professor Guojie Zhang has made outstanding academic contributions in the frontier field of biodiversity genomics and ecological evolutionary genomics. As of July 2023, more than 250 papers have been published in international high-impact academic journals, including 19 articles in Science, 17 articles in Nature and 7 articles in Cell. Many articles were selected as cover articles, and many others were selected as key recommended articles by F1000. The total citation rate of the article has exceeded 45,000 times, with h-index 91. The research results have been widely reported by mainstream media such as CNN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic. Professor Guojie Zhang has led a number of major international projects on the evolution of animal genomes, covering nearly 100 species with key evolutionary nodes in the evolutionary process, such as primates, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, insects and mollusks. The research focuses on speciation, extreme environmental adaptation, environment-organism interaction, and social behavior evolution. For the first time, he proposed to reconstruct the tree of life of species using whole-genome data, and solved the most difficult problem in the study of species evolution -- the origin and evolution of modern birds. Guojie Zhang has won several international awards and was selected as the cover character of the 2017 Nature Index. He has successively served as a judge for many national foundations such as the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, etc., and has served as a manuscript reviewer for many top international journals including Nature, Science, and Cell. He is also as editorial Board member of GigaScience, Human Heredity, Zoological Research and the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. |
Publications: |
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. |
Social Assignment: |
- 2018 The Primate Genome Project (PGP), Founder and leader
- 2018 The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), Founder and leader
- 2017 The Global Ant Genome Project (GAGA), Founder and leader
- 2016 GigaSceince, Editorial Board Member
- 2015 International Genome Standards Committee, Committee Member
- 2015 The Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) Project, Founder and leader
- 2013 Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Editorial Board Member
- 2013 Human genomics, Editorial Board Member
- 2012 The 5000 Arthropod Genomes Initiative (i5K) Community, Committee Member
- 2012 The Global Avian Evolutionary Biology Community, Founder and leader
- 2011 The Genome 10K (B10K) Project, Chinese Coordinator
- 2011 3-biotech, Editorial Board Member
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Awards and Honors: |
International Award
- 2024 Corresponding member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters
- 2020 Highly Cited Researcher(Cross-Field)
- 2019 Villum Investigator
- 2018 Highly Cited Researcher(Cross-Field)
- 2017 The Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowships
- 2015 Lundbeck Fellow, Denmark
- 2012 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, European Commission
- 2011 Sir Frederick McMaster visiting fellow, CSIRO, Australia
Domestic Award
- 2023 The XPLORER PRIZE
- 2021 The Kunpeng Project of Zhejiang Province
- 2021 China's top 10?advances?in?life?sciences
- 2019 China's top 10?advances?in?life?sciences
- 2019 "Thousand Talents Plan" Special Project of Yunnan Province
- 2017 The first prize of Shenzhen Natural Science Award
- 2016 Overseas High-level Talents of Shenzhen Peacock Program (Category B)
- 2014 Polar bear genome article awarded Cell China annual paper
- 2014 The bat article was rated as one of the most influential articles in China in 2013
- 2013 Li Ruqi Award on Animal Genetics (Two national winners every two years)
- 2011 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Paper Award of Yunnan Province (Special Prize)
- 2011 100 Excellent Papers of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Shenzhen High-level Professional Talents (National Level)
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