Research Area

  DATE:2018-05-24    
Infomation  
Name: Zuoyu Sun
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 010-62758391
Position:  
Email: sunzuoyu@pku.edu.cn
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
2003.09--2006.07 Ph.D. Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences
2000.09--2003.07 M.S. Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences
1996.09--2000.07 B.S. Shandong University of Science and Technology, Department of Geological Sciences
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
2010.08--to now Associate Professor, Peking University
2008.07--2010.07 School of Earth and & Space Sciences and Institute of Prehistoric Life & Environmental Science Assistant Professor, Peking University
2006.07--2008.07 Earth and & Space Sciences and Institute of prehistoric life & Environmental Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, Peking University
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), 2007
Teaching first prize, Peking University and Beijing City (collective, 4/5), 2012
Excellent postdoctoral Award, Peking University, 2008
Huang Tingfang / Xinhe young outstanding scholar Award, 2014
Longruan teaching award, 2014
Teaching first prize, Peking University (collective, 4/5), 2008;
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
01216510 Applied palaeontology, Spring 2010-2015
01216670 Museology, Fall 2010-2014
01231320 Historical Geology, Spring 2010-2015
01231350 Field Investigation & Geological Mapping Summer 2007-2014;
01231510 Frontiers of Paleontology, Fall 2011-2014;
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Journal of Earth Science, Journal of Palaeogeography (English Edition)
Member, Palaeontological Society of China (PSC)
Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
1.Ecosystem and chronostratigraphy of the Ladinian-Carnian intervals in Western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan Provinces, China. National Natural Science Foundation of China,PI, 2007.12-2010.12.
2.High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic on the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation in western Guizhou, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China,PI,2007.12-2008.12.
3.Diversity and paleoenvironment of the Luoping Biota, Yunnan Province, China. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS). PI, 2011-2012.
4.Diversity of fossil fishes in the Panxian Fauna, Guizhou Province, China. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS), PI, 2014-2016.
5.2008 and 2010 annual national geological relics protection project for Wumengshan National Geopark, Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province, Panxian Land and Resource Bureau, PI, 2010-2014.
6.Personnel Training to Build projects - Resource sharing Projects - Beijing University Museum Union (Institutional Reform Projects),Beijing Municipal Education Commission,PI, 2012-2015.
7.Identifications for Microscopic Organisms of Hydrocarbon Source Rocks. The Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED),PI,2014-2015.
8.Investigation and research on the diversity and paleoecology of Early Triassic Chaohusaurus Fauna, Anhui Province. Anhui Land and Resource Bureau, participants, 2010.04-2011.12.
9.Radiation bio-event sequence of marine reptile faunas and global evolutionary-migratory pattern within the course from early recovery to radiated reconstruction of Early-Middle Triassic
ecosystem after the end-Permian Mass Extinction, Major research projects of international cooperation in National Natural Science Foundation of China, participants, 2010.1-2013.12.
10.Testing the rapid diversification and origins of the earliest Mesozoic marine reptiles in the Lower Triassic of Chaohu, Anhui, China, National Geographic Society, participants, 2009-2010.
11.Biodiversity and Paleoenvironment and their global correlations of the Panxian Fauna, Guizhou Province, National Natural Science Foundation of China, participants, 2007-2009.
12.Testing the role of predators in post-Permian recovery with marine reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Panxian County, Guizhou Province, China, National Geographic Society, participants, 2005-2008.
13.Palaeogeographic communication between the Middle Triassic marine vertebrate faunas of south China and the Muschelkalk Fauna of Germany. International cooperation project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, participants,2002-2009.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Chen Wenqi, Sun Zuoyu (corresponding author), Andrea Tintori, Jiang Ddyong, 2014. A new species of Sangiorgioichthys TIntori and Lombardo, 2007 (Actinopterygii; Semionotiformes) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Guizhou Province, South China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 273: 65-74.
Li Yan, Sun Zuoyu (corresponding authors), Sun Yuanlin, Jiang Dayong, Hao Weicheng,2013. Carnian(Late Triassic) ammonoid biostratigraphy in Luoping County, eastern Yunnan Province, China. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 49(3):471-479.[in Chinese]
Lin Hunqin, Sun Zuoyu (corresponding author), Andrea Tintori, Cristina Lombardo, Jiang Dayong, Hao Weicheng, 2011. A new species of Habroichthys Brough, 1939 (Actinopterygii, Peltopleuriformes) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Yunnan Province, South China. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 262(1):79-89.
Sun Zuoyu, Hao Weicheng, Maisch M. W., Pfretzschner H. U., Jiang Dayong, 2005b. A lariosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Gejiu Formation of Yunnan, China. N. Jb. Geol. Paläeont. Mh., 7: 431-448.
Sun Zuoyu, Hao Weicheng, Sun Yuanlin, Jiang Dayong, 2009. Silicified Anisian spiriferinids from Guizhou, southern China. Acta Palaeont. Pol., 54(1): 61-68.
Sun Zuoyu, Hao Weicheng, Sun Yuanlin, Jiang Dayong, 2009. The conodont genus Nicoraella and a new species from the Anisian of Guizhou, South China. N. Jb. Geol. Paläeont. Abh., 252(2): 227-235.
Sun Zuoyu, Lombardo C., Tintori A., Jiang Dayong. 2015.03. A new species of Altisolepis (Peltopleuriformes, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Southern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.909819
Sun Zuoyu, Maisch M. W., Hao Weicheng, Jiang Dayong, 2005a. A Middle Triassic thalattosaur (Reptilia: Diapsida) from Yunnan, China. N. Jb. Geol. Paläeont. Mh, 4: 193-206.
Sun Zuoyu, Sun Yuanlin, Hao Weicheng, Jiang Dayong, 2006. Conodont evidence for the age of the Triassic Panxian fauna, Guizhou, China. Acta Geol. Sin., 80(5): 621-630.
Sun Zuoyu, Tintori A, Lombardo C, JIANG Da-yong, Hao Wei-cheng, Sun Yuan-lin, Lin Hun-qin. 2012.11. Fuyuanperleidus dengi Geng, Jin, Wu and Wang, 2012, (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, southern China. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 118(3):359-373.
Sun Zuoyu, Tintori A., Jiang Dayong, Lombardo C., Rusconi M., Hao Weicheng, Sun Yuanlin, 2009. A new perleidiform (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Middle Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Yunnan, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English edited), 83(3): 460-470.
Sun Zuoyu, Tintori A., Lombardo C., Jiang Dayong, Hao Weicheng, Sun Yuanlin, Wu Feixiang, Rusconi M., 2008. A new species of Colobodus (Actinopterygians) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Guizhou, South China. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 114(3): 363-376.
Sun Zuoyu,Jiang Dayong,Sun Yuanlin,Hao Weicheng,2014. Conodont biostratigraphy of the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation in Yangjuan-Chupiwa Section, Guizhou Province, South China, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis,50(2):269-280.[in Chinese]