• 1994.08-1997.06 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ph.D. Degree
• 1986.08-1989.07. Inner Mongolia University, Master Degree
• 1982.09-1986.07. Shaan Xi Normal Universtiy, Bachelor Degree

• Systematical and Evolutionary Botany, Germplasm collection and Innovation.

• Zhang S.Z., Ma P, Liu Q.X., Yang J.K. 2019. Infinite Blooming100 years of Chinese Botanical Illustration. Jiangsu：Phoenix Science Press Ltd.
•  Zhang S.Z., Ma P, Liu Q.X., Yang J.K. 2019. Infinite Blooming100 years of Chinese Botanical Illustration. Jiangsu：Phoenix Science Press Ltd.
• Zhang S.Z. 2017.Walking the Path to Eternal Fragrance. Catalog of the XIX IBC Botanical Art Exhibition. Jiangsu：Phoenix Science Press Ltd.
• Li P.Q, Chen T, Zhang S.Z, Zhang L, Xing F.W, Li B.T, Li N. Flora of Shenzhen. Beijing, China Forestry Publishing
• Zhang S.Z 2017. Shenzhen Calendar- Plants. Shenzhen: Shenzhen Press Group 

         Papers published during 2015-2020

• Shiou Yih Lee, Kaikai Meng, Haowei Wang, Renchao Zhou, Wenbo Liao, Fang Chen, Shouzhou Zhang* and Qiang Fan* 2020 Severe Plastid Genome Size Reduction in a Mycoheterotrophic Orchid, Danxiaorchis singchiana, Reveals Heavy Gene Loss and Gene Relocations.  Plants 2020, 9, 521; doi:10.3390/plants9040521
• Wei-Yin Jin, Bing Liu, Shou-Zhou Zhang, Tao Wan, Chen Hou, Yong Yang 2020. Gnetum chinense, a new species of Gnetaceae from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 148: 105–117
• Shanshan Dong, Min Liu, Yang Liu, Fei Chen, Ting Yang, Lu Chen, Xingtan Zhang, Xing Guo, Dongming Fang, Linzhou Li, Tian Deng, Zhangxiu Yao, Xiaoan Lang, Yiqing Gong, Ernest Wu, Yaling Wang, Yamei Shen, Xun Gong, Huan Liu, Shouzhou Zhang* 2020. The genome assembly and annotation of Magnolia biondii Pamp., a phylogenetically, economically, and medicinally important ornamental tree species. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.158428.
• Shanshan Dong, Lu Chen , Yang Liu , Yaling Wang, Suzhou Zhang, Leilei Yang , Xiaoan Lang, Shouzhou Zhang1 * .2020.The draft mitochondrial genome of Magnolia biondii and mitochondrial phylogenomics of angiosperms.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231020
• Jian Zhang , Xin-Xing Fu, Rui-Qi Li, Xiang Zhao, Yang Liu, Ming-He Li, Arthur Zwaenepoel, Hong Ma , Bernard Goffinet , Yan-Long Guan, Jia-Yu Xue,Yi-Ying Liao, Qing-Feng Wang, Qing-Hua Wang , Jie-Yu Wang, Guo-Qiang Zhang Zhi-Wen Wang, Yu Jia, Mei-Zhi Wang, Shan-Shan Dong , Jian-Fen Yang, Yuan-Nian Jiao, Ya-Long Guo, Hong-Zhi Kong , An-Ming Lu , Huan-Ming Yang, Shou-Zhou Zhang*, Yves Van de Peer *, Zhong-Jian Liu * and Zhi-Duan Chen *. 2020. The hornwort genome and early land plant evolution. Nature Plants.t https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0588-4
• Wang,W.-G, X.-Da Ma, R.-K. Li, J.-P. Shi, S.-Z. Zhang. J.-Y.Shen. 2020. Begonia puerensis sp. nov. (Begoniaceae), a new tuberous species from Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, e02618 doi: 10.1111/njb.02618. 
• WANG W.-G., F.-Y MO, J.-B.YUE, P.-F. ZHANG, F.WEN, S-Z. ZHANG Henckelia aurantiflora (Gesneriaceae), a new endemic species from Xizang, China
• Jia-Yu Xue, Tao Zhao, Yang Liu, Yong-Xia Zhang, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Hongfeng Chen, Guang-Can Zhou, Shou-Zhou Zhang^* Zhu-Qing Shao^*,2020. Genome-Wide Analysis of NBS-LRR Genes of Four Orchids Revealed Extremely Low Numbers of Disease Resistance Genes, Frontiers. Genetics-Evolutionary and Population Genetics. Vol.10. Article 1286.
• Liangsheng Zhang*, Fei Chen, Xingtan Zhang, Zhen Li, Yiyong Zhao, Rolf Lohaus , Xiaojun Chang, Wei Dong, Simon Y. W. Ho , Xing Liu , Aixia Song , Junhao Chen, Wenlei Guo , Zhengjia Wang , Yingyu Zhuang , Haifeng Wang, Xuequn Chen, Juan Hu , Yanhui Liu, Yuan Qin , Kai Wang , Shanshan Dong, Yang Liu, Shouzhou Zhang , Xianxian Yu, Qian Wu, Liangsheng Wang, Xueqing Yan, Yuannian Jiao , Hongzhi Kong, Xiaofan Zhou, Cuiwei Yu , Yuchu Chen , Fan Li, Jihua Wang , Wei Chen, Xinlu Chen, Qidong Jia, Chi Zhang, Yifan Jiang , Wanbo Zhang , Guanhua Liu , Jianyu Fu, Feng Chen, Hong Ma , Yves Van de Peer & Haibao Tang. 2020. The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants. Nature.  577(2):79-84
• Chen P, Yang L.L., Peng Y, Zhang S.Z, Xu G.H, Yang J.F., Zhang S.Z*  In vitro regeneration of Osmunda mildei. DOI:10.11931/guihaia.gxzw201908045
• Yang L.L, Wang W.G, Lang X.A, Zhang S.Z, Yao Z.X, Xu T, Li Y.Q, Yan D.F, Yang J.F, Wang Y.L, Zhang S.Z. 2019.Resource status of Michelia guangdongensis   (Magnoliaceae), a wild plant species with extremely small populations.Biodiversity,27(9):1016-1020.
• Lang, X.A., Li N, Li L.F, Zhang S.Z.2019. Intergrated metabolome and transcriptome analysis uncovers the role of annthocyannin metabolism in Michelia Maudiae. Inter. J. of Genomics. 2019, Article ID 4393905. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4393905
• Wang W.G, Lang X.A, Yang L.L，Wu H, Zhang S.Z. 2019. Begonia zhongyangiana, a new species of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from western China. Phytotaxa. 407(1)051-058
• Dong, S.S, Zhao C.X, Zhang S.Z, Wu H, Mu W.X, Wei T, Li N, Wan T, Liu H, Cui J, Zhu R.L, B. Goffinet & Liu Y. 2019. The amount of RNA editing sites in liverwort organellar genomes is correlated with the GC content and PPR protein diversity. Genome Biol Evol evz232, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz232.
• Baskaran X.R, Geovigila A.V, Rajan K, Zhang S.Z, Liao W.B.2019. Free Radical Scavenging and Some Pharmaceutical Utilities of Nanoparticles in the Recent Scenario. Current Pharmaceutical Desigh. 25:1-17.
• Dong, S.S., Q. He, S.Z. Zhang, H. Wu, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu. 2019. The mitochondrial genomes of Bazzania tridens and Riccardia planiflora further confirms conservative evolution of mitogenomes in liverworts. The Bryologist 122: 130-139.
• Shi, Y.-C., Y. Liu, S.-Z. Zhang, R. Zou, J.-M. Tang, W.-X. Mu, P. Yang & S.-S. Dong^*. 2018. Assembly and comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Sophora japonica ‘JinhuaiJ2’. PLoS ONE 13: e0202485.
• Dong, S.-S., C.-X. Zhao, F. Chen, Y.-H. Liu, S.-Z. Zhang, H. Wu, L.-S. Zhang & Y. Liu^*. 2018. The complete mitochondrial genome of the early flowering plant Nymphaea colorata is highly repetitive with low recombination. BMC Genomics 19: 614.
• Yao, Z.-X., J.-F. Yang, Y. Liu, S.-S. Dong, H. Wu & S.-Z. Zhang. 2018. The complete chloroplast genome of Magnolia sinostellata (Magnoliaceae), a rare and endangered species of China. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 3: 742-743.
• Dong, S.-S., J.-Y. Xue, S.-Z. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Wu, Z.-D. Chen, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu^*. 2018. Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Anthoceros angustus: conservative evolution of the mitogenome in hornworts. The Bryologist 121: 14-22.
• Baskaran, X.-R., S.-Z. Zhang*, V.-A. Geo & W.-B. Liao. 2018. A review of the use of pteridophytes for treating human ailments. J. Zhejiang Univ. (Science B), 19(2): 85-119.
• Baskaran, X.-R., V.-A. Geo, T. Parimelazhagan, R.-D. Muralidhara & S.-Z. Zhang*. 2016. Biosynthesis, characterization and evaluation of bioactivities of leaf extract-mediated biocompatible silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from an early tracheophyte, Pteris tripartita Sw. Internat. J. Nanomed., 11:5789-5806.
• Chen, Z.-D. et al., China Phylogeny Consortium. 2016. Tree of life for the genera of Chinese vascular plants. J. Syst. Evol., 54: 273–276. (H.-L. Li and L.-L. Yang are coauthors, and S.-Z. Zhang is one of the two corresponding authors)
• Fan, L.-J., M.-Q. Chen, B. Dong, N.-H. Wang, Q. Yu, X.-L. Wang, L.-J. Xuan, Y.-L. Wang, S.-Z. Zhang & Y.-M. Shen*. 2018. Transcriptomic analysis of flower bud differentiation in Magnolia sinostellata. Genes, 9:212.
• Li, H.-L., W. Wang, R.-Q. Li, J. Zhang, M. Sun, R. Naeem, J. Su, X.-G. Xiang, D.-E. Soltis, P.-M. Soltis, J.-H. Li, S.-Z. Zhang*, Z.-D. Chen*, A.-M. Lu*. 2016. Global versus Chinese perspectives on the phylogeny of the N-fixing clade. J. Syst. Evol., 54:392-399.
• Liu, H.-M., S.-Z. Zhang, T. Wan, P.-W. Kamau, Z.-W. Wang, A. Grall, A. Hemp & H. Schneider*. 2016. Exploring the pteridophyte flora of the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot. J. Syst. Evol., 54 (6):691-705.
• Yang, L.-L., H.-L. Li, L. Wei, T. Yang, D.-Y. Kuang, M.-H. Li, Y.-Y. Liao, Z.-D.
  

  Chen, H. Wu & S.-Z. Zhang*. 2016. A supermatrix approach provides a comprehensive genus-level phylogeny for Gentianales. J. Syst. Evol., 54: 400-415.

• Yang, Y.*, L.-B. Lin, D.-K. Ferguson, S.-Z. Zhang & T. Wan. 2017. A new gnetalean macrofossil from the early Cretaceous and its evolutionary significance. Cretaceous Res., 74:56-64.
• Baskaran X., K.-R. Sathish, S. Dhivya, S. Dhivya & S.-Z. Zhang. 2015. DNA barcoding of Pteris speices by psbA-trnH intergenic spacer: taxonomically complex and polyploid fern. Genomes, 58, 270.
• Clark, J., O. Hidalgo, J. Pellicer, H.-M. Liu, J. Marquardt, Y. Robert, M. Christenhusz, S.-Z. Zhang, M. Gibby, I.-J. Leitch & H. Schneider. 2016. Genome evolution of ferns: evidence for relative stasis of genome size across the fern phylogeny. New Phytologist, 210(3): 1072-1082.
• Hu, Y.-T., T. Deng, L.-T. Chen, H. Wu & S.-Z. Zhang. 2016, Selection and validation of reference genes for qRT-PCR in Cycas elongata. Plos One, 11(4): e0154384.
• Li. H.-L., W. Wang, R.-Q. Li, J. Zhang, M. Sun, R. Naeem, J. Su, X.-G. Xiang, D.-E. Soltis, P.-M. Soltis, J.-H. Li, S.-Z. Zhang, Z.-D. Chen & A.-M. Lu. 2016. Global versus Chinese perspectives on the phylogeny of the N-fixing clade. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54(4): 392–399.
• Schneider, H., H.-M. Liu, J. Clark, O. Hidalgo, J. Pellicer, S.-Z. Zhang, J.-K. Laura, F.-F. Michael & J.-L. Ilia. 2015. Are the genomes of royal ferns really frozen in time? Evidence for coinciding genome stability and limited evolvability in the royal ferns. New Phytologist, 207(1): 10-13.

• 2020： Magnolia resource protection，innovation and industrialization practice"  The first prize of science and technology of Shaanxi Academy of Sciences, and the award-winning project "
• 2013: "Germplasm innovation and application of Magnoliaceae"  won the third prize of Science and Technology award of Guangdong Province ranking the first。
• 2012: "Germplasm innovation and application of Magnoliaceae" won the Natural Science award of Shenzhen, ranking No.1 

• 2019, Cycas genetic diversity investigation and protection effectiveness evaluation, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences;
• 2015, The endangered mechanism and protection strategy of three PSESP of Magnoliaceae (Project No.: 201504322), State Forestry Bureau
• 2018, Research on promotion and application mechanism of plant varieties (Project No.: 201804), Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality.
• 2016, Planning and application practice of tropical and subtropical plant conservation center (Project No.: 201624), Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality.
• 2015, Research on chloroplast genome and transcriptome of Cycas and Magnolia (Project No.: 201520), Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality.
• 2015，Conservation of genetic diversity of Magnolia sinostellata and reintroduction in its native habitat, SE China。 BGCI project;

• E-mail: shouzhouz@szbg.ac.cn; Tel: 0755-25732477