首都师范大学教授，中国鸟类学会理事，北京市动物学会理事。1993年和2009年在北京师范大学获得理学硕士和博士学位。2009年7-8月在美国洛杉矶自然历史博物馆合作研究， 2011年1-11月美国国家自然历史博物馆访问，现主要从事脊椎动物学教学和鸟类学研究工作。多次获得校级优秀主讲教师称号，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目及省部委科研项目10余项，发表论文30余篇,其中Auk， Journal of Ornithology， Condor， Plos One， Journal of vertebrate Paleontology等国际知名刊物10余篇。

研究领域：
鸟类骨骼、肌肉的功能形态学；古鸟类学
近年来主持的主要科研项目：
国家自然科学基金面上项目：鸟类食性相关结构的功能形态学研究，2013-2016
国家自然科学基金面上项目：中国反鸟类的形态学与骨组织学研究 2011-2013
国家自然科学基金面上项目：鸟类胸骨及相关结构的功能形态进化 2009-2011
国家自然科学基金面上项目：鸟类附肢骨骼形态结构的进化适应 2007-2009
近期发表的主要论文:
1. Zihui Zhang, Luis M. Chiappe, Gang Han & Anusuya Chinsamy. 2013. A large bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: new information on the skull of enantiornithines.Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1176–1189.
2. Zihui Zhang*, Yan Yang. 2013. Forelimb myology of the Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus). International Journal of Morphology 31(4):1482-1490
3. Zihui Zhang*, Yunping Huang, Helen F. James, and Lianhai Hou. 2012. Two Old World vultures from the middle Pleistocene of northeastern China and their implications for interspecific competition and biogeography of Aegypiinae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology32: 117-124.
4. Zihui Zhang*, Yunping Huang, Helen F. James, and Lianhai Hou. 2012. A marabou (Ciconiidae: Leptoptilos) from the Middle Pleistocene of northeastern China. Auk 129(4):1?8.
5. Zihui Zhang*, James C. Vanden Berge, and Yue Hua Sun. 2012.Descriptive Anatomy of the Pelvic Appendage Myology of the Endemic Chinese Grouse (Tetrastes sewerzowi). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124(2):328-337.
6. Zihui Zhang, Alan Feduccia, Helen F. James. 2012. A Late Miocene accipitrid (Aves: Accipitriformes) from Nebraska and its implications for the divergence of Old World vultures. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48842.
7. Wang Xia, Zhang Zihui^*. 2011. Enantiornithine birds in China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 85(6):1211-1223.
8. Zihui Zhang, Xiaoting Zheng, Lianhai Hou, Guangmei Zheng. 2010. A new Old World vulture (Falconiformes: Accipitridae) from the Miocene of Gansu Province, northwest China. Journal of Ornithology 151:401-408.
9. Wang Xia, Zhang Zihui^*,Gao Chunling, Hou Lianhai, Meng Qinjin, Liu Jinyuan. 2010. A New Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China. Condor 112(3):432-437.
10. Zihui Zhang, Chunling Gao, Qingjin Meng, Jinyuan Liu, Lianhai Hou, and Guangmei Zheng. 2009. Diversification in an Early Cretaceous avian genus: evidence from a new species of Confuciusornis from China. Journal of Ornithology 150:783-790.
11. Zheng Xiaoting, Zhang Zihui^*,Hou Lianhai (2007) A new enantiornitine bird with four long rectrices from the Early Cretaceous of northern Hebei, China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 81(5):703-708.
12. Zhang Zihui, Hou Lianhai, Hasegava Yoshikasu, O’Connor Jingmai, Martin D. Larry, Chiappe M. Luis (2006) The first Mesozoic heterodactyl bird from China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) 80(5):631-635.

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E-mail:zihuizhang@cnu.edu.cn, zihuizhang66@gmail.com