Biographies:

Xingliang ZHANG, Northwest University, China

Xingliang Zhang is a professor at the Department of Geology, Northwest University. He is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. Prof. Zhang currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Cambrian Subcommission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the Group Leader of the International Working Group on the Third Stage of the Cambrian. His research primarily focuses on the teaching and study of early life evolution and geobiology.