个人简历

古植物学和地层古生物学者，男，祖籍浙江海宁，1933年1月在上海出生，汉族。1950-1952年浙江大学地理系肄业；1954年南京大学地质系毕业。1961年中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究生毕业。1980-1982年在英国里丁大学等进修。1995年当选中国科学院院士。中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究员、博士生导师。历任中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究实习员、助理研究员、副研究员、研究员等职。先后任中国古生物学会古植物学分会副主任、主任委员，国际古植物协会副主席，国际古植物协会中国地区代表，国际植物分类委员会植物化石组委员，美国植物学会古植物组名誉会员

研究领域

长期从事古植物学和相关地层学研究，以中生代裸子植物和蕨类化石的研究见长。主要从事中、古生代植物群及其相关地层研究

近期论文

Wu Xiang-Wu，Zhou Zhi-Yan，WANG Yong-Dong. Nomenclatural notes on some ginkgoalean fossil plants from China. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica, 4:880-883.
周志炎，2007.中国古植物命名中若干值得重视的问题，兼述维也纳法规中的有关规定。古生物学报，4：387-393。
刘秀英、杨小菊，周志炎，2007. 西藏东部晚中生代植物。北京：地质出版社。 1-123， 24图版。
Yang, X.J., Friis, E.M., Zhou, Z.Y. 2008 Ovulate organs of Ginkgo ginkgoidea (Tralau) comb. nov., and associated leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Scania, South Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 149, 1-17.
Zhi-Yan, Zhou, 2009. An overview of fossil Ginkgoales. Palaeoworld, 19, 1-22.
Cheng Quan, Ge Sun and Zhiyan Zhou+, A new Tertiary Ginkgo (Ginkgoaceae) from the Wuyun Formation of Jiayin, Heilongjiang, northeastern China and its paleoenvironmental implications. Amer. J. Bot. 97(3):446-457.
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2010. A nw Cephalotaxus and associated epiphyllous fungi from the Oligocane of Guangxi, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 161 (2010) 179–195
全成、周志炎，2010. 黑龙江渐新世银杏大化石及其古气候和植物地理意义。古生物学报，49( 4) : 439- 442.
Maher I. El-Soughier, R.C. Mehrotra, Zhi-Yan Zhou+, Gong-Le Shi，2011. Nypa fruits and seeds from the Maastrichtian–Danian sediments of Bir Abu Minqar, South Western Desert, Egypt. Palaeoworld 20 (2011) 75–83
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2011. Cupressus foliage shoots and associated seed cones from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 166, 325-334
Zhiyan Zhou+, Cheng Quan, and Yu-Sheng (Christopher) Liu, 2012. Tertiary Ginkgo ovulate organs with associated leaves from North Dakota, USA and their evolutionary significance. International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 173, No. 1, pp. 67-8
Gongle Shi, Zhiyan Zhou+, Zhiming Xie, 2012. A new Calocedrus from South China and its implication for transpacific floristic exchanges. American Journal of Botany, 99(1): 1–13. 2012.
Hill, C.R., X. J. Yang, Z. Y. Zhou, J. C. Doyal, 2012. Exceptionally preserved conifer twigs of Pseudofrenelopsis from the marine Lower Cretaceous of Yorkshire, England. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 51:395-410.
Caroline Mairot, *Gaëtan Guignard, *Xiao-Ju Yang,, Zhi-Yan Zhou, 2014. Cuticle micro- and ultrastructure of Suturovagina Chow et Tsao (Cheirolepidiaceae): Taxonomic and palaeoecological implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 205, 9–21
*Batten, D. J., Zhou, Z., Li, W. 2014. Plant remains from Early Cretaceous deposits on the Goban Spur, Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic Ocean, and their palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeoworld, 23,162–186.