研究领域：
	热衷于早期生命的起源、辐射与深时演化研究，运用寒武纪生命大爆发与奥陶纪生物大辐射期间磷酸盐化的壳体化石材料，探索重大地质环境背景中不同门类（重点聚焦磷酸钙质壳腕足动物）的生物矿化过程、生长发育规律、生物多样性、谱系关系、壳体化学及宏演化模式。 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HvyTU3wAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhiliang_Zhang5

社会任职：

获奖及荣誉：
	2021，中国古生物学十大进展 2020，陕西省优秀博士学位论文 2018，西北大学2018届优秀毕业生 2018，西北大学优秀博士学位论文 2017，《古生物学报》2017年度优秀论文 2017，博士研究生国家奖学金 2016，陕西高等学校科学技术一等奖（3/3） 2015，博士研究生国家奖学金 2014，硕士研究生国家奖学金

承担科研项目情况：

2022-2025，现代古生物学和地层学国家重点实验室，率先行动人才计划项目（主持） 　　2019-2022，澳大利亚麦考瑞大学，Macquarie University Research Fellowships（MQRF），Resolving the evolutionary roots of the lophotrochozoan tree of life（A$ 54万，主持） 　　2014-2015，西北大学，研究生创新项目，寒武纪早期腕足动物系统学研究（主持） 　　2018-2022，国家自然科学基金，国际(地区)合作与交流项目，早古生代海洋底栖生态系统重建研究（参与） 　　2018-2020，国家自然科学基金, 青年科学基金项目，牙形石的形态大小及其与环境协同演化研究（参与） 　　2018-2021，国家自然科学基金, 面上项目，寒武纪触手冠动物类群的系统发育研究（参与） 　　2017-2020，国家自然科学基金, 面上项目，最古老的有头类及其近亲研究（参与）

代表论著：

1.    Zhang, Z.L.*, Zhang, Z.F., Ma J.Y., Taylor, P.D., Strotz L.C., Jacquet, S.M., Skovsted, C.B., Chen, F.Y., Han, J. & Brock, G.A. Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa. Nature, 2021, 599(7884), 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04033-w 2.    Zhang, Z.L., Pour, M.G., Popov, L., Holmer, L., Chen, F., Chen, Y., Brock, G. & Zhang, Z. The oldest Cambrian trilobite - brachiopod association in South China. Gondwana Research, 2021, 89, 147-167. 3.    Zhang, Z.L.*, Topper, T.P., Chen, Y., Strotz, L.C., Chen, F., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A. & Zhang, Z. Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod. Palaeontology, 2021, 64 (5), 727–741. 4.    Zhang, Z.L., Holmer, L.E., Chen F.Y. & Brock, G.A. Ontogeny and evolutionary significance of a new acrotretide brachiopod genus from Cambrian Series 2 of South China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2020, 27, 127–151. 5.    Zhang, Z.L., Popov L.E., Holmer, L.E. & Zhang, Z.F. Earliest ontogeny of early Cambrian acrotretoid brachiopods — first evidence for metamorphosis and its implications. BMC evolutionary biology, 2018, 18(1), 42. 6.    Zhang, Z.L., Skovsted, C.B. & Zhang, Z.F. A hyolithid without helens preserving the oldest hyolith muscle scars; palaeobiology of Paramicrocornus from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Cambrian Series 2) of South China.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018, 487: 1-14. 7.    Zhang, Z.L., Zhang, Z.F., Holmer, L.E. & Chen F.Y. Post-metamorphic allometry in the earliest acrotretoid brachiopods from the lower Cambrian (series 2) of south China and its implications. Palaeontology, 2018, 61(2), 183-207. 8.    Zhang, Z.L., Zhang, Z.F. & Wang, H.Z. Epithelial cell moulds preserved in the earliest acrotretid brachiopods from the Cambrian (Series 2) of the Three Gorges area, China. GFF, 2016, 138(4), 455-466. 9.    张志亮，陈飞扬，张志飞，华南寒武纪碳酸盐岩中最早腕足动物的辐射、发育与分布, 地学前缘, 2020, 27(6), 79-103. 10.   张志亮，张志飞，Lars Holmer，华南峡东地区最早的乳孔贝类腕足动物壳体超微结构和发育研究，古生物学报，2017, 56 (4), 483-503. 11.   张志亮，华洪，张志飞, 埃迪卡拉化石纪疑难化石 Shaanxilithes 在云南王家湾剖面的发现及其地层意义，古生物学报，2015, 54 (1), 12-28. 12.   张志亮，华南寒武纪早期磷酸钙质壳腕足动物研究 [D]. 西安: 西北大学, 2018, 1-318. 13.   Wang, H.Z., Zhang, Z.F., Holmer, L.E. & Zhang, Z.L. Redescription and systematic position of the linguliform brachiopod Diandongia pista from the Chengjiang Lagerst？tte (Cambrian, Stage 3) of eastern Yunnan, China. Palaeontology, 2022. 14.   álvaro, J.J., Holmer, L.E., Shen Y., Popov, L.E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z.L., Ahlberg, P., Bauert, H., González-Acebrón, L. Submarine metalliferous carbonate mounds in the Cambrian of the Baltoscandian Basin induced by vent networks and water column stratification. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12(1), 1-15. 15.   Chen, F.Y., Brock, G.A., Zhang, Z.L., Laing, B., Ren, X.Y. Zhang, Z.F. Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerst？tte, eastern Yunnan. Journal of the Geological Society, 2021, 178 (1). 16.   Chen, F.Y., Brock, G.A., Betts, M., Zhang, Z.L., Yun, H., Laing, B. & Zhang, Z.F. Sedimentology and integrated chronostratigraphy of the lower Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian, Stages 2-3), Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Geological Magazine, 2021, 158(7), 1224-1236. 17.   Zhang, Z., Strotz, L.C., Topper, T.P., Chen, F.Y., Chen, Y.L., Yue, L., Zhang, Z.L., Skovsted, C.B. & Brock, G.A. An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian. Nature Communications, 2020, 11(1), 1-7. 18.   Skovsted, S.B., Martí Mus, M., Zhang, Z.L., Pan, B., Li, L., Liu, F., Li, G. & Zhang, Z. On the origin of hyolith helens.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020, 555, 109848. 19.   Chen, F.Y., Zhang, Z., Betts, M. J., Zhang, Z.L. & Liu, F. First report on Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Stage 4) at the stratotype area of Wulongqing Formation in Malong County, Eastern Yunnan, China. Geoscience Frontiers, 2019, 10(4), 1459-1476. 20.   Popov, L.E., álvaro, J.J., Holmer, L.E., Bauert, H., Pour, M.G., Dronov, A.V., Lehnert, O., Hints O., M？nnik P., Zhang Z. & Zhang, Z.L. Glendonite occurrences in the Tremadocian of Baltica: first Early Palaeozoic evidence of massive ikaite precipitation at temperate latitudes. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9(1), 1-10. 21.   Holmer, L. E., Yue, L., Zhang, Z.L. & Zhang, Z. The problematic lingulate brachiopod Aulonotreta from the Ordovician (Dapingian-Darriwilian) of Baltoscandia. Estonian journal of earth sciences, 2019, 68(4), 206-224. 22.   Holmer, L.E., Popov, L.E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Claybourn, T., Zhang, Z.L., Brock, A.G. & Zhang Z.F. Evolutionary significance of a middle Cambrian (Series 3) insitu occurrence of the pedunculate rhynchonelliform brachiopod Nisusia sulcata. Lethaia, 2018, 51(3), 424-432. 23.   Hu, S., Erdtmann, B.D., Steiner, M., Zhang, Y.D., Zhao, F.C., Zhang, Z.L. & Han J. Malongitubus: a possible pterobranch hemichordate from the early cambrian of south china. Journal of Paleontology, 2017, 1-7. 24.   Holmer, L.E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Popov, L.E., Zhang, Z.L. & Zhang, Z.F. Ecology, biofacies, biogeography and systematics of micromorphic lingulate brachiopods from the Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) of south‐central China. Papers in Palaeontology, 2017, 3(3), 317-361. 25.   Holmer, L.E., Popov, L.E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Zhang, Z.L. & Zhang, Z.F. Unusual pitted Ordovician brachiopods from the East Baltic: the significance of coarsely pitted ornamentations in linguliforms. Papers in Palaeontology, 2017, 3(3), 387-399. 26.   Zhang, Z. F., Zhang, Z.L., Li, G.X. & Holmer, L.E. The Cambrian brachiopod fauna from the first-trilobite age Shuijingtuo Formation in the Three Gorges area of China. Palaeoworld, 2016, 25(3), 333-355. 27.   Zhang, Z.F, Zhang, Z.L, Holmer, L. E. & Li, G, First report of linguloid brachiopods with soft parts from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of the Three Gorges area, South China. Annales de Paléontologie, 2016, 101(3), 167-177. 28.   张志飞，张志亮, 李国祥，寒武纪腕足动物起源: 假说,问题与展望. 古生物学报, 2016，55(4), 403-423. [GS: 2; IF: 0.654] 29.   张志飞，张志亮，寒武纪冠轮动物化石研究进展与假体腔动物的实证起源，2014，自然杂志：36(1)：34 ~ 41. 30.   Zhang, Z.F., Li, G.X., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A., Balthasar, U., Skovsted, C.B., Fu, D.J., Zhang, X.L., Wang, H.Z., Butler, A., Zhang, Z.L., Cao, C.Q., Han, J., Liu, J., & Shu, D.G., An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters. Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 4682.   科普文章： 1.    陈飞扬，张志亮，澳洲弗林德斯山脉地质考察之旅，生物进化， 2021, 4: 18-38. 2.    陈飞扬，张志亮，Laing, B.A., 澳大利亚南部地质考察之旅，生物进化，2020, 1: 26-45. 3.    张志亮，陈飞扬，爱沙尼亚地质考察之旅，生物进化，2017, 4: 47~ 60. 4.    张志亮，张志飞，云南前寒武-寒武纪地质考察，生物进化，2015,（33）1：53~58. 5.    张志亮，陈飞扬，世界华人地质大会—台湾环岛之旅，生物进化，2015,（36）4: 54~62.