工作经历
2025.10至今,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所,副研究员
2024.06至2025.09,北京大学,特聘副研究员,博士后
2022.06至2024.05,北京大学,博雅博士后
教育背景
2016.09至2022.1,中国科学院大学地球与行星科学学院,博士(硕博连读),古生物学与地层学,导师:朱敏研究员
2019.12至2020.12,美国密歇根大学,访问研究生,导师:Matt Friedman教授
2012.09至2016.07,中国地质大学(武汉)李四光学院,学士,地质学,导师:朱敏研究员、赖旭龙教授
从事早期脊椎动物演化研究,特别是早期硬骨鱼类形态学、组织学及分支系统学研究,基于大数据的软骨鱼类宏演化研究。
1. 中国博士后科学基金会,特别资助项目,2024T170012,早泥盆世西屯动物群硬骨鱼类头后骨骼与系统学研究,2024.07-2026.06,18万元,结题,主持。
2. 国家自然科学基金委员会,青年科学基金项目,42302005,云南曲靖早泥盆世硬骨鱼类外骨骼组织学、形态发生与系统学研究,2024.01-2026.12,30万元,在研,主持。
3. 中国博士后科学基金会,自由探索性基础研究,2022M720215,早泥盆世西屯动物群硬骨鱼类头后骨骼与系统学研究,2023.01-2025.12,8万元,结题,主持。
4. 现代古生物学和地层学国家重点实验室,基础性研究,223106,云南早泥盆世硬骨鱼类头后骨骼与系统学研究,2023.01-2025.12,7万元,在研,主持。
5. 国家自然科学基金委员会,重点项目,E1AD010201,华南志留纪兰多维列世脊椎动物群综合研究,2022.01-2026.12,293万,在研,参与。
6. 国家自然科学基金委员会,面上项目,42072026,湘西北澧县及周边志留纪鱼化石及含鱼地层的综合研究,2021.01-2025.12,61万元,在研,参与。
1. Xindong Cui,Matt Friedman,Yilun Yu,You-an Zhu,Min Zhu*. Bony-fish-like scales in a Silurian maxillate placoderm. Nature Communications,2023, 14(7622):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43557-9.
2. Xindong Cui,Matt Friedman,Tuo Qiao,Yilun Yu,Min Zhu*. The rapid evolution of lungfish durophagy. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(2390): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30091-3.
3. Tuo Qiao, Xindong Cui,Wenjin Zhao,Chengxi Liu,Maokun Li,Jing Lu,Brian Choo,Min Zhu*. A new fossil fish sheds light on the rapid evolution of early lungfishes. Current Biology, 2026, 36: 1–9. (Co-first author).
4. Xindong Cui,Tuo Qiao,Lijian Peng,Min Zhu*. New material of the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Styloichthys changae illuminates the origin of cosmine. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology,2025, 23 (1): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2432273.
5. Xindong Cui,Tuo Qiao,Min Zhu*. Scale morphology and squamation pattern of Guiyu oneiros provide new insights into early osteichthyan body plan. Scientific Reports,2019, 9(1):4411 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40845-7.
6. Xindong Cui,Qingming Qu,Plamen S. Andreev,Qiang Li,Huijuan Mai,Min Zhu*. Modeling scale morphogenesis in a Devonian chondrichthyan and scale growth patterns in crown gnathostomes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,2021, 41(2): https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1930018.
7. Xindong Cui,Qiang Li,Tuo Qiao,Min Zhu*. New material of thelodonts from Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of Qujing,Yunnan,China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica,2020, 58(1):1–15.
8. Emily M. Troyer*,Rafael A. Rivero-Vega*, Xindong Cui, Min Zhu,et al. Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes, Current Biology,2025, 35(19): 4631–4641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.008
9. Maokun Li, Xindong Cui,Min Zhu*,Tuo Qiao*. Sarcopterygians from the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of Nanning,Guangxi,China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica,2025, 63(1):1–19.
10. Chang Lu, Xindong Cui,Jun Chen,Zexian Cui,Min Zhu,Yigang Xu*. Devonian sea surface temperature and paleoecology changes constrained by in situ oxygen isotopes of fish fossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2024, 639(112059):https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112059
11. Qiang Li, Xindong Cui,Plamen Stanislavov Andreev,Wenjin Zha,Jianhua Wang,Lijian Peng,Min Zhu*. Nostolepis scale remains (stem Chondrichthyes) from the Lower Devonian of Qujing,Yunnan,China. PeerJ,2021, 9: e11093 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11093.
12. Yemao Hou, Xindong Cui,Mario Canul-Ku,Shichao Jin,Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltran,Qinghua Guo,Min Zhu*. ADMorph: A 3D Digital Microfossil Morphology Dataset for Deep Learning. IEEE Access,2020, 8: 148744–148756.
13. Yanchao Luo, Xindong Cui,Tuo Qiao,Min Zhu*. A new dipnoan genus from the Middle Devonian of Huize,Yunnan,China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology,2022, 19(18):1303–1315.
1. 2023年度中国科学院优秀博士学位论文
2. 2019年硕士研究生国家奖学金
3. 2018年第十六届中国古脊椎动物学学术年会“研究生优秀报告奖”
4. 2016年湖北省优秀学士学位论文