Commissioners
Dr
Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Overview:
Zhi-Qiang Zhang's research is
centred around the systematics, diversity and ecology of the
Acari. Some 50,000 species of mites have been described but this
group of the most successful arachnids is estimated to have half
to one million living species. Zhi-Qiang's research is represented
in over 150 publications on mites.
Summary of Research & Education:
Born in Shanghai, Zhi-Qiang
was educated at Fudan University in China (BSc in zoology in
1985). He completed his PhD in entomology at Cornell University
(Ithaca, New York, USA) in 1993 and worked as an insect ecologist
at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA from 1992
to 1994. During 1994-1999, he was an acarologist for the CABI
International Institute of Entomology based in the Department
of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. He also
served as a Technical Officer for the Secretariat of the BioNET-International
(The Global Network for Taxonomy) during 1998-1999. Since 1999,
he has been a researcher and curator of Acari at the New Zealand
Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand.
Zhi-Qiang is an honorary research fellow at the Department of
Entomology, The Natural History Museum (London, UK), an adjunct
professor at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) and Hebei Normal
University (Shijiazhuang, China), an honorary professor at Fujian
Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Fuzhou, China), and a guest
professor at Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University (Fuzhou,
China). Zhi-Qiang is the president of the Systematic & Applied
Acarology Society and a member of the International Executive
Committee of the International Congress of Acarology. He is the
editor/founder of several international journals of zoology,
including Zootaxa.
Contact details:
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
Street address:
Landcare Research
231 Morrin Road
St. Johns
Auckland 1072
New Zealand
phone [0064-9] 5744110
Fax [0064-9] 5744101
E-mail zhangz (at) LandcareResearch (dot)
co (dot) nz
Websites:
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/about/contact/staff_page.asp?
staff_num=934
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/zhang/index.html
