2014/7-2018/12，中科院地质与地球物理研究所兰州油气资源研究中心，助理研究员

2019/01-至今，中科院地质与地球物理研究所兰州油气资源研究中心，副研究员

2、国家自然科学基金青年项目，银-额盆地早白垩世中晚期孢粉记录的早期被子植物和环境演变、2017/01-2019/12，执行中、主持。

3、中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院青年人才成长基金，查干凹陷湖相富藻优质烃源岩层的发现及其形成机理研究，2017/01-2018/12，已结题、主持。

4、中国博士后基金一等面上资助，酒泉盆地下白垩统孢粉记录的早期被子植物辐射演化，2015/03-2016/06，已结题、主持。

5、中国科学院重点实验室开放基金项目，鄂尔多斯盆地延长组烃源岩有机显微组分特征及其对页岩含气性的影响，2015/01-2016/12，已结题、主持。

2、Mingzhen Zhang, Shuang Dai, Baoxia Du, et al. Mid-Cretaceous Hothouse Climate and the Expansionof Early Angiosperms. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English Edition), 2018,92: 2004-2025.

3、Liming Ji, Mingzhen Zhang , Ma, Xiangxian, et al. Characteristics of mixed sporopollen assemblage from sediments of Dushanzi Mud volcano in southern Junggar Basin and indication to the source of mud and debris ejecta. Marine & Petroleum Geology, 2017,89: 194-201.

4、张明震, 吉利明, 杜宝霞, 周世新, 陈永欣. 鄂尔多斯盆地三叠系延长组陆相烃源岩中角质体组分新认识及生烃贡献. 石油学报, 2017, 38(5): 525-532.

5、Mingzhen Zhang, Liming Ji, Baoxia Du, et al. Palynology of the Early Cretaceous Hanxia Section in the Jiuquan Basin, Northwest China: The discovery of diverse early angiosperm pollen and palaeoclimatic significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2015,440:297-306.

6、Mingzhen Zhang, Liming Ji, Yuandong Wu, et al. Palynofacies and geochemical analysis of the Triassic yanchang formation, Ordos basin: Implications for hydrocarbon generation potential and the paleoenvironment of continental source rocks. International Journal of Coal Geology, 2015,152B: 159-176.

7、Liming Ji, Mingzhen Zhang, Zhiguang Song. The palynological record from Coniacian to lower Campanian continental sequences in the Songliao Basin, northeastern China and its implications for palaeoclimate. Cretaceous research, 2015,56: 226-236.

8、Mingzhen Zhang, Dai, S., Heimhofer, U., et al. Palynological records from two cores in the gongpoquan basin, inner east asia: evidence for floristic and climatic change during the late jurassic to early cretaceous. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, 2014,204: 1-17.

9、Mingzhen Zhang, Dai, S., Pan, B., et al. The palynoflora of the lower cretaceous strata of the Yingen-Ejinaqi basin in north china and their implications for the evolution of early angiosperms. Cretaceous Research, 2014,48: 23-38.

10、Dai Shuang, Zhang Mingzhen, Peng Dongxiang, et al. Tectonic and environmental evolution of the northern Tibetan Plateau prior to the India collision with Asia. Acta Geologica Sinica (English version), 2014,88: 425-443.

11、Du Baoxia, Mingzhen Zhang, Shuang Dai, et al. Discovery of Pseudofrenelopsis from the Lower Cretaceous of Liupanshan Basin and its paleoclimatic significance. Cretaceous Research, 2014,48: 193–204.

12、戴霜, 张明震, 彭栋祥, 王华伟, 吴茂先, 陈瑞灵. 中国西北地区中—新生代构造与气候格局演化. 海洋地质与第四纪地质, 2013, 33: 153-168.

13、张明震, 戴霜, 陈世强, 张文防, 张永全, 赵杰, 张莉莉, 张瑞. 内蒙古银根-额济纳旗盆地白垩系中硅化木化石及其沉积环境. 地质学报, 2013,87:159-1066.