2002.9 – 2006.7,北京大学数学学院,统计学学士
2006.9 – 2012.7,中国科学院动物研究所,生态学博士(张德兴、杨子恒)
2010.10 – 2012.9,美国加州大学戴维斯分校,联合培养(Bruce Rannala)
2012.11 – 2015.6,瑞典自然历史博物馆,博士后(Fredrik Ronquist)
2015.9 – 2017.8,瑞士苏黎世联邦理工大学,博士后(Tanja Stadler)
2017.9 – 2021.11,中国科学院古脊椎所,副研究员
2021.12 – 2022.11,中国科学院古脊椎所,青年研究员
2022.12 – 今,中国科学院古脊椎所,研究员
计算古生物学。通过建立统计模型,发展新算法,编写计算机程序,综合运用随机模拟和真实数据分析,探索一系列重要演化生物学问题的解决方案:包括系统发生关系重建、分化时间估计、演化速率和分异模式推断等。在理论方法、计算机模拟和真实数据分析方面都取得了创新性的研究成果。所用模型和算法独立或合作编写于本领域广泛应用的软件MrBayes和BEAST 2中。
软件:
MrBayes (github.com/NBISweden/MrBayes)
1. compound Dirichlet priors for branch lengths (Zhang et al. 2012)
2. total-evidence dating under fossilized birth-death priors (Zhang et al. 2016)
3. parsimony-guided tree proposals (Zhang et al. 2020)
4. mixed independent gamma and lognormal relaxed clocks (Zhang. 2022)
BEAST2 (github.com/CompEvol/beast2)
1. SpeciesNetwork (github.com/zhangchicool/speciesnetwork, Zhang et al. 2018)
2. BDSky (github.com/zhangchicool/bdsky, Zhang et al. 2023)
Y Yu, C Zhang*, X Xu*. 2023. Complex macroevolution of pterosaurs. Current Biology, 33 (4), 770-779
C Zhang. 2022. Selecting and averaging relaxed clock models in Bayesian tip dating of Mesozoic birds. Paleobiology, 48 (2), 340-352
Y Yu, C Zhang*, X Xu*. 2021. Deep time diversity and the early radiations of birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118 (10), e2019865118
C Zhang, JP Huelsenbeck, F Ronquist*. 2020. Using Parsimony-Guided Tree Proposals to Accelerate Convergence in Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference. Systematic Biology, 69 (5), 1016-1032
A Gavryushkina#, C Zhang#. 2020. Total-Evidence Dating and the Fossilized Birth-Death Model, pp. 175-193 in The Molecular Evolutionary Clock (SYW Ho, editor). Springer Nature Switzerland
C Zhang*, M Wang. 2019. Bayesian tip dating reveals heterogeneous morphological clocks in Mesozoic birds. Royal Society Open Science, 6, 182062
C Zhang*, HA Ogilvie, AJ Drummond, T Stadler*. 2018. Bayesian Inference of Species Networks from Multilocus Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35 (2), 504-517
C Zhang, T Stadler, S Klopfstein, TA Heath, F Ronquist*. 2016. Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth-Death Process. Systematic Biology, 65(2), 228-249
(*corresponding author, #equal contribution)
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=4othtCUAAAAJ
2021. 张驰、余逸伦、徐星,生物多样性演化的方法探讨和鸟类演化实证研究, 古脊椎所重大成果
2021. 毛方圆、张驰,哺乳形动物的挖掘趋同演化与脊柱的演化发育意义, 中国古生物学十大进展与古脊椎所重大成果
2019. 倪喜军、李强、张驰,高原隆升背景下的灵长类演化模式研究, 古脊椎所优秀成果
2012. 中国科学院院长优秀奖,优秀毕业生,优秀博士学位论文