Zhou Zhonghe


Zhou Zhonghe is a Chinese palaeontologist. He described the ancient bird Confuciusornis.
Zhou graduated from Nanjing University and earned a Ph.D. in Biology in 1999 from the University of Kansas. He is the director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and in 2010 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.