“对古生物学家来说，野外就是最大的实验室，要面临许许多多的失败，但只要不轻言放弃，持之以恒，总有一天会成功!”
"For paleontologists, the field represents the largest laboratory. We might encounter plenty of failures, but as long as we do not give up and stick to our work, one day we will succeed."

　　江苏张家港人，中共党员。古鱼类学家。1990获中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所博士学位。主要从事早期脊椎动物及演化生物学研究，为解决颌起源、有颌类起源与早期分化格局、硬骨鱼纲起源与早期演化等理论问题提出了新学说并提供了关键实证，推动了国际学术界对硬骨鱼纲起源乃至有颌类早期分化的探索，使中国早期脊椎动物研究稳居古脊椎动物研究领域的国际前沿地位。2021年当选中科院院士。曾当选中国古生物学会副理事长、国际地质对比计划IGCP491项目主席及国际地层委员会泥盆系分会投票委员。曾任古脊椎所第七、八任所长。

Dr. Zhu Min, born in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, is a CPC member and a paleoichthyologist. He received his Ph.D. from the IVPP in 1990. He specializes in early vertebrates and evolutionary biology. As a global leader in early vertebrate evolution, Zhu has proposed new hypotheses and provided key empirical evidence on theoretical issues including the origin of the vertebrate jaws, the origin and early differentiation pattern of gnathostomes, and the origin and early evolution of Osteichthyes. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. Zhu also worked as vice president of the Paleontological Society of China, chairman of the IGCP491 (International Geological Correlation Programme) project, and voting member of the Devonian Section of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. He served as the seventh and eighth director of the IVPP.