2004/09－2008/06，济南大学，地理学、学士

2008/09－2011/06，兰州大学，地质学、硕士

2011/09－2014/06，兰州大学，地质学、博士

工作经历：

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，中科院西北生态环境资源研究院，副研究员

2、碰撞以来古地理格局与构造地貌过程（任务七），第二次青藏科考研究研究2018/01-2021/12，参与。

3、烃源岩石样品综合分析，中国石油化工股份有限公司华东油气分公司横向课题，2019/06-2022/06），主持。

4、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，国家自然科学基金青年项目，2017/01-2019/12，主持。

5、甘肃省敦煌盆地页岩气资源调查评价实验测试技术，甘肃省地质调查院横向课题， 2016-2018，主持。

6、有机质类型对富有机质页岩含气性的影响研究，中科院兰州油气资源研究中心“十三五”科技创新基金，2016-2018，主持。

7、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，中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院青年人才成长基金，2017/01-2018/12，主持。

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

9、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，中国科学院重点实验室开放基金项目，2015/01-2016/12，主持。

2．Zhang Mingzhen *, Liming Ji, Baoxia Du, et al., 2015. 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, 440: 297-306.

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

4．Zhang Mingzhen *, Xuewen Hou, Baoxia Du, et al., 2019. The first palynological records from the Lower Cretaceous of the northern Sichuan Basin, China: Palynostratigraphical and paleoenvironmental significance. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 174: 177-188.

5．Zhang Mingzhen *, Youhua, Zhu*, Liming Ji, Longhui Dou, Abduljan Zhumahun, Bochao Yuan, 2020. Early cretaceous aquatic algae and algal laminae from the Jiuquan Basin, northwestern China: evidence of the oil precursors for terrestrial source rocks. Cretaceous Research, 105: 2-12.

6．Zhang Mingzhen, Shuang Dai *, Heimhofer, U., et al., 2014. 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, 204: 1-17.

7．Zhang Mingzhen, Shuang Dai *, Pan, B., et al., 2014. 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, 48: 23-38.

8．Zhang Mingzhen*, Shuang Dai, Xianwen Zhang, et al., 2020. Conifer-dominant palynoflora from the Lower Cretaceous in Ordos Basin, China: Biostratigraphicaland paleoclimatic implications. Geological Journal, DOI: 10.1002/gj.4015.

9．Zhang Mingzhen, Du B X , Jin P H , et al., 2018. Fossil Taiwannia from the Lower Cretaceous YixianFormation of western Liaoning,Northeast Chinaand its phytogeography significance. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, 2018, 010(006):502-515.

10．Ji Liming, Zhang Mingzhen*, Ma, Xiangxian, et al., 2017. 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, 89: 194-201.

11．Ji Liming*, Zhang Mingzhen, Song Zhiguang. 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.

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