研究领域：
	海绵动物的古生物学；微生物碳酸盐岩；地质历史中动物与微生物系统的相互作用

社会任职：

获奖及荣誉：
	2011–2014：国家留学基金委公派博士研究生奖学金（36个月）  　　2013：Tilly Edinger Prize

承担科研项目情况：
	国家自然科学基金青年基金，41602001，寒武纪角海绵类化石研究，2017/01-2019/12，18万元，在研，主持

代表论著：

罗翠*，朱茂炎. (2010) 华北地台前寒武纪“后生动物化石”评述。古生物学报, 49 (3): 288-307.  　　Luo C, Reitner J* (2014) First report of fossil "keratose" demosponges in Phanerozoic carbonates: preservation and 3-D reconstruction. Naturwissenschaften, 101(6):467–77.  　　Luo C*, Schäfer N, Duda J-P, Li L-X (2014) Preservation of organic matter in sponge fossils: a case study of “round sponge fossils” from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota with Raman spectroscopy. Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences, 77: 29–38.  　　Luo C*, Reitner J (2016) “Stromatolites” built by sponges and microbes – a new type of Phanerozoic bioconstruction. Lethaia, 49:555–570.  　　Luo C*, Zhu M, Reitner J (2016) Jinxian Biota revisited: taphonomy and body plan of the Neoproterozoic discoid fossils from southern Liaodong Peninsula, North China. PalZ, 90:205–224.  　　Reitner J*, Luo C, Duda J-P (2012) Early sponge remains from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian phosphate deposits of the Fontanarejo area (Central Spain). 17th Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy & Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Kaili Biota. Guizhou. Journal of Guizhou University (Natural Sciences), 29 (Sup. 1): 184-186（extended abstract）