2006年6月獲西北大學(xué)古生物與地層學(xué)理學(xué)博士學(xué)位，2009-2010年瑞典烏普薩拉大學(xué)訪問學(xué)者（博士后），現(xiàn)任西北大學(xué)地質(zhì)學(xué)系教授。

主要負(fù)責(zé)《微體古生物學(xué)》《高級古生物學(xué)》等課程的教學(xué)工作。

主持國家自然科學(xué)基金項目、第十二屆霍英東教育基金會青年教師基礎(chǔ)研究課題基金和教育部全國優(yōu)秀博士學(xué)位作者專項基金等多項研究課題、參與國家重大基礎(chǔ)科學(xué)研究（973）項目、教育部創(chuàng)新團(tuán)隊項目等研究項目多項，主要從事華南早寒武世腕足動物的起源、輻射和環(huán)境適應(yīng)性演化研究，曾先后在英國皇家學(xué)報和美、英、法、波蘭、瑞典、日本等國際古生物學(xué)報和動物學(xué)報以第一作者發(fā)表學(xué)術(shù)論文十余篇。

主持國家自然科學(xué)基金面上項目（G41072017）

國家自然科學(xué)青年基金項目（G40702003）

國家自然科學(xué)基金重點(diǎn)項目二級課題(40830208)

教育部全國優(yōu)秀博士學(xué)位論文作者專項基金（FANEDD）

第十二屆霍英東青年教師基金項目（121016）

陜西省科技廳重點(diǎn)創(chuàng)新項目（2011kjxx37）

中國科學(xué)院古生物學(xué)與地層學(xué)國家重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室自主課題（123117）

中國博士后第五十批面上科學(xué)基金（2011M501273)

參與國家重點(diǎn)基礎(chǔ)發(fā)展規(guī)劃973項目（2006CB806401）、教育部創(chuàng)新團(tuán)隊項目(PCSIRT)等項目，現(xiàn)為西北大學(xué)大陸動力學(xué)國家重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室早期生命研究所骨干成員。

研究成果和發(fā)表論文：在英國皇家學(xué)會會刊和美、英、法等國際古生物學(xué)雜志發(fā)表學(xué)術(shù)論文50余篇（其中SCI 43篇），并應(yīng)邀在國際大會上做專題發(fā)言（guest talk）多次，系列研究成果入選最新編寫的國外古生物教材和最新修訂的腕足動物典籍（Treatise）。

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2. Zhang, Z.F., Li, G.X., Emig, C.C., Han, J., Holmer, L.E., Shu, D.G. 2009. Architecture and function of the lophophore in the problematic brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta (Early Cambrian, South China) Geobios, 42: 649-661. (SCI)

3. Zhang, Z.F., Robson, S.P., Emig, C.C., Shu, D.G. 2008. Early Cambrian radiation of brachiopods: A perspective from South China. Gondwana Research, 14: 241-254. (SCI)

4. Zhang, Z.F., Han, J, Zhang, X. L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2003. Pediculate brachiopod Diandongia pista from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 77: 288-293. (SCI)

5. Zhang, Z.F., Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2004a. Soft tissue preservation in the Lower Cambrian linguloid brachiopod from South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49: 259-266. (SCI)

6. Zhang, Z. F., Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2007b. Note on the gut preserved in the Lower Cambrian Lingulellotreta (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) from South China. — Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 88:65-70. (SCI)

7. Zhang, Z.F., Shu D.G., Emig, C.C., Zhang, X.L., Han, J., Liu, J.N., Li, Y., Guo, J.F. 2007c. Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte of South China. Palaeontology, 50 (6): 1391-1402. (SCI)

8. Zhang, Z.F., Shu, D.G., Han, J. & Liu, J.N. 2007a: A gregarious lingulid brachiopod Longtancunella chengjiangensis from the Lower Cambrian, South China. Lethaia 40 (1): 11u201318. (SCI)

9. Zhang, Z. F., Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Liu, J. N. and Shu, D. G. 2007b. Note on the gut preserved in the Lower Cambrian Lingulellotreta (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) from South China. — Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 88:65-70. (SCI)

10. Zhang, Z.F., Shu D.G., Emig, C.C., Zhang, X.L., Han, J., Liu, J.N., Li, Y., Guo, J.F. 2007c. Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte of South China. Palaeontology, 50 (6): 1391-1402. (SCI)

11. Zhang, Z.F., Shu, D. G., Han, J. & Liu, J. N. 2006. New data on the rare Chengjiang (Lower Cambrian, South China) linguloid brachiopod Xianshanella haikouensis. Journal of Paleontology 80:203-211. (SCI)

12. Zhang, Z.F., Shu, D. G., Han, J. & Liu, J. N. 2005. morpho-anatomical differences of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang and Recent linguloids and their implications. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm): 277-288. (SCI)

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17. 張志飛，舒德干，2008. 早寒武世腕足動物的形態(tài)解剖及其進(jìn)化，中國科技論文在線精品論文，25-41.

18. 張志飛，王妍，汪洋，韓健, 2009. 寒武早期泥質(zhì)基底腕足動物的生活策略－來自澄江動物群的證據(jù), 西北大學(xué)學(xué)報（自然科學(xué)版）39(6):534-541.

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21. 汪洋，李勇，張志飛*，2010. 峽東水井沱組頂部微體骨骼化石初探，古生物學(xué)報：49（4）：511-523. Wang Y., Li Y., Zhang, Z.F. 2010* Note on small skeletal fossils from the uppermost Shuijingtuo Formation (Early Cambrian) in the Yangtze Gorge area. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 49:511-523. (*通訊作者)

22. Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C., Larsson, C., Brock, G.A., Zhang,Z.F. 2011. First record of a ambria larval shell in Early Cambrian Tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance. Palaeontology 54:235-239

23. Liu, J.N., Steiner, M., Dunlop J., Keupp H., Shu, D.G., Ou, Q., Han, J., Zhang, Z.F., Zhang, X.L., 2011. An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages. Nature 470: 526-530.

24. Shu, D.-G., S. Conway Morris, Zhang Z.-F. and J. Han. 2010. The earliest history of the deuterostomes: the importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte. Proceeding of the Royal Society, B, 277: 165u2013174.

25. Shu D.G., Conway Morris, S, Han J., Li Y., Zhang X.L, Hua, H., Zhang Z.F., Liu J.N., Guo, J.F., Yao, Y. & Yasui. K. 2006. Lower Cambrian Vendobionts from China and Early Diploblast Evolution. Science 312:731-734.

26. Shu D.G., S. Conway Morris, Han, J., Chen, L., Zhang X.L, Zhang, Z.F., Liu, H.Q., Li, Y & Liu, J.N. Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerst?tte, Lower Cambrian, China. Nature, 2001, 41(4): 419-424.

27. Shu, D. G., Conway Morris, S. Zhang, Z. F., Liu, J. N., Han, J. Chen, L., Zhang, X. L., Yasui, K. & Li, Y. 2003b. A new species of Yunnanozoan with implications for deuterstome evolution. Science, 299, 1380-1384.

28. Shu, D. G., Conway Morris, S., Han J., Zhang Z. F. & Liu J.N. 2004. Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China, Nature, 430:422-428.

29. Shu, D., S. Conway Morris, J. Han, Zhang, Z. F., Yasui, P. Janvier, L. Chen, X-L. Zhang, J-N. Liu, Y. Li, H-Q. Liu, 2003, Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys, Nature, 421: 526-529.

30. Shu, D.G., Conway Morris, S., Zhang, Z.F. and Han, J. 2010. The earliest history of the deuterostomes: the importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte, Proeeedings of Royal Society B, 277: 165-174.

31. Han J., Zhang Z.F. & Liu, J.N., 2008. A preliminary note on the dispersal of the Cambrian Burgess Shale-type faunas. Gondwana Research, 14: 269-276.

32. Han, J., Zhang, Z.F., Liu, J.N. & Shu, D.G. 2007. Evidence of Priapulid scavenging from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Deposits, South China. PALAIOS, 22: 691-694.

33. Han, J., Liu, J., Zhang, Z., Zhang, X. And Shu, D.G 2007. Trunk ornament on the palaeoscolecid worms Cricocosmia and Tabelliscolex from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits of China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 52 (2): 423u2013431.

34. Han, J., Zhang X.L., Zhang Z.F. & Shu D.-G., 2006. A new theca-bearing Early Cambrian worm from the Chengjiang fossil Lagerst?tte, China. Alcheringa 30:1-10.

35. Han, J., Shu, D.G., Zhang, Z.F., Liu, J.N., Zhang, X.L. 2006. Preliminary notes on soft-bodied fossil concentrations from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits, Chinese Science Bulletin 20: 2482-2492.

36. Han, J., Shu, D.G., Zhang, Z.F., Liu, J.N., 2004.The earliest-known ancestors of Recent Priapulomorpha from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte, Chinese Science Bulletin, 49(17): 1860-1868.

37. Han J, Zhang X.L, Zhang Z.F. and Shu D.G, 2003. A new platy-armored worm from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Largerst?tte, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 77(1): 1-6.

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39. Schoenemann, B., Liu, J.N., Shu, D.G., Han, J. & Zhang, Z.F. 2009. A miniscule optimized visual system in the lower Cambrian. 42: 256-273.

40. Guo, J.F., Li, Y., Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Zhang, Z.F., Ou, Q., Liu, J.N., Shu, D.G., Maruyama, S. and Komiya. T. 2008. Fossil Association from the Lower Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation in the Yangtze Gores Area, Hubei, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica. 82: 1124-1132.

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42. Liu Jian-ni, Shu De-gan., Han Jian, Zhang Zhi-fei and Zhang Xing-liang. 2008. The lobopod Onychodictyon from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte revisited. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53: 285-292.

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45. Liu, J. N., Han, J., A. M. Simonetta, Hu, S.X., Zhang, Z.F., Yao, Y. & Shu, D.G. 2006b. New observations of the lobopod-like worm Facivermis from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Chinese Science Bulletin 51(3): 385-363.

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48. Zhang, X.L., Han,J., Zhang, Z.F., Liu, H.Q.& Shu, D.G., 2004. Redescription of the Chengjiang arthropod Squamaculaclypeata Hou and Bergstr?m, from the Lower Cambrian, south-west China. Palaeontology, 47(2): 1-13.

49. Ou, Q., Shu, D.G., Han, J., Zhang, X.L., Zhang, Z.F., Liu, J.N. 2009. A juvenile redlichiid trilobite caught on the move: Evidence from the Cambrian (Series 2) Chengjiang Lagerstatte, southwestern China. Palaios 24: 473-477.

50. Han Jian, Yao Yang, Zhang Zhifei, Liu Jianni and Shu Degan, 2007. New observations on the palaeoscolecid worm Tylotites petiolaris from the Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerst?tte, south China. Paleontological Research, 11(1): 59-69.

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52. Han J., ZHANG Z.-F. & LIU, J.-N., 2007. The trace fossils of priapulids from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits and implications for their locomotory styles. Journal of China University of Geosciences. 18(special issue), 392-393.