Zhe Zhao

Zhe Zhao

  • Subject： Zoology
  • Tel/Fax: +86-10-64807085 / +86-10-64807099  / 
  • Email： zhaozhe@ioz.ac.cn
  • Address： Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101 , P. R. CHINA
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Resume

Visiting Scholar - Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, 2024 to 2025

Associate Professor - Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2023 to present

Assistant Professor - Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018 to 2023

Post doctor - Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016 to 2018

Ph. D. in Zoology - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. 2012 to 2016

Research Interests

  1. Intelligent Taxonomy: AI-driven integrative taxonomy and diversity monitoring of invertebrates;
  2. Systematics and Evolution: Multi-omics based research on the genetic and developmental mechanisms of key functional traits;
  3. Molecular Ecology: Spider–insect interaction networks and the exploration of ecological functions.

Awards and Honors

Honors:

Secretary of Arachnological Society of China, Zoological Society of China

Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Editorial Board Member of Zootaxa

Awards

The first Chimelong Award (Sailing) of Zoological Society of China (2020)

Research Grants

Science & Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program, 2023–2028 (Participant)

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024–2027

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022–2025

Selected Publications

  1. Cheng R, Luo AR, Orr M, Ge DY, Hou ZE, Qu YH, Guo BC, Zhang F, Sha ZL, Zhao Z, Wang MQ, Shi XY, Han HX, Zhou QS, Li YN, Liu XY, Shao C, Zhang AB, Zhou X, Zhu CD*. 2025. Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research. Integrative Zoology, 20, 33–49.
  2. Zhang Y, Shen Y, Jin P, Zhu B, Lin Y, Jiang T, Huang X, Wang Y, Zhao Z, Li S. 2024. A trade-off in evolution: the adaptive landscape of spiders without venom glands. Gigascience, 13, giae048.
  3. Li B, Zhao Z*, Li SQ, Xie CY*. 2023. Description of the unknown male of Vappolotes tianjiayu Li, Zhao & Li, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Coelotinae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal, 11: e114147
  4. Zhou GC, Ye RR, Zhao Z*. 2023. A new troglobitic species of the genus Troglocoelotes Zhao & S. Li, 2019 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Coelotinae) from Guizhou, China. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11: e103265.
  5. Li B, Zhao Z*, Li SQ. 2023. Three new species of the genus Vappolotes Zhao & Li, 2019 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from southwest China. Zootaxa, 5270, 325–336.
  6. Zhao Z, Li, B, Zhang XQ, Ballarin F, Pham D-S* & Li SQ*. 2023. Baiyuerius gen. nov., a new genus of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from China and Vietnam. ZooKeys, 1165, 43–60.
  7. Li B, Zhao Z*, Okumura K-i., Meng K, Li S., Chen H*. 2023. Yunguirius gen. nov., a new genus of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from southwest China. ZooKeys, 1159, 51–67.
  8. Shao LL#, Zhao Z#, Li SQ. 2023. Is phenotypic evolution affected by spiders' construction behaviors? Systematic Biology, 72(2)：319-340.
  9. Shao LL#, Zhao Z#, Li SQ. 2023. Is phenotypic evolution affected by spiders' construction behaviors? Systematic Biology, 72(2)：319-340.
  10. Okumura K*, Zhao Z, 2022. Taxonomic revision of six species of the subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Japan accompanied with the description of Nesiocoelotes gen. n. Acta Arachnologica, 71(2): 93–103.
  11. Zhao Z, Hou ZE, Li SQ*, 2022. Cenozoic Tethyan changes dominated Eurasian animal evolution and diversity patterns. Zoological Research, 43(1): 3–13.
  12. Okumura K*, Zhao Z, 2021. A New Species of the Subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Shiga and Fukui Prefectures, Japan. Species Diversity, 26(2): 235–240.
  13. Lan TQ, Zhao Z, Kim ST*, Yoo JS, Lee SY, Li SQ*, 2021. Five new species of the genera Falcileptoneta and Longileptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from South Korea. ZooKeys, 1010: 97–116.
  14. Zhao Z, Shao LL, Li FY, Zhang XQ, Li SQ*, 2020. Tectonic evolution of the Tethyan region created the Eurasian extratropical biodiversity hotspots: tracing Pireneitega spiders' diversification history, Ecography, 43: 1400–1411.
  15. Li B, Zhao Z*, Chen YX, Chen HF, Wu ZY*, Li SQ. 2019. Vappolotes, a new genus of coelotine spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Guizhou, China, Zootaxa, 4701(5): 434–442.
  16. Li B, Zhao Z*, Chen HF, Wu ZY*, Li SQ, 2019. Four new species of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from the Tibetan Plateau, China, Zootaxa, 4648(1): 141–154.
  17. Li B, Zhao Z*, Chen HF, Wu ZY*, Li SQ, 2019. New species of the coelotine spider genus Lineacoelotes (Araneae: Agelenidae) from China, Zootaxa, 4623(2): 351-363.
  18. Li B, Zhao Z*, Zhang CT*, Li SQ, 2019. Troglocoelotes gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in South China, Zootaxa 4554(1):219–238.