“没了好奇心，就没有想象力和创造性”
“Without curiosity, one loses imagination and creativity.”

　　江苏江都人。古鸟类学家。1999年获美国堪萨斯大学博士学位。主要研究鸟类的起源、鸟类飞行的起源和进化、羽毛的演化、鸟类早期演化和辐射，以及带毛恐龙、翼龙，生物地层学和中生代陆相生物群演化与环境关系。发现并命名了若干中生代鸟类化石，提供了支持鸟类恐龙起源学说以及鸟类飞行树栖起源假说的新证据；研究了早期鸟类的系统演化、生态分异、食性分化等理论问题，丰富了人们对早期鸟类的认识。2011年当选中科院院士。曾当选国际古生物协会主席、发展中国家科学院院士、巴西科学院通讯院士。曾任古脊椎所第九、十任所长。

Born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province, Zhou Zhonghe is a paleornithologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in the USA in 1999. He specializes in the origin of birds, the origin and evolution of bird flight, the evolution of feathers, the early evolution and radiation of birds, feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, biostratigraphy, and the evolution of Mesozoic continental biota in relation to the environment. Zhou discovered and named many Mesozoic bird fossils, and published evidence supporting the theory of the dinosaurian origin of birds and their arboreal origins. He studies theoretical issues such as evolutionary systematics, ecological differentiation, and dietary diversification among early birds, and he has contributed to the public understanding of early birds. Zhou was selected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He also worked as the president of the International Paleontological Association, an academician of TWAS, and a corresponding academician of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He served as the ninth and tenth director of the IVPP.