周卫明，男，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所副研究员，硕士生导师，中国科学院特聘研究骨干，青年创新促进会会员。目前已发表文章40余篇，其中一作/通讯文章19篇，成果发表于Current Biology、Taxon、Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology等杂志期刊。
工作教育经历
2007/09-2011/06，南京大学地球科学与工程学院古生物与地层学专业，理学学士学位；
2012/09-2017/09，南京大学地球科学与工程学院古生物与地层学专业，理学博士学位；
2017/10–2021/01，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所，助理研究员；
2021/02–至今，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所，副研究员。
主要从事晚古生代华夏植物群的系统分类和生态地层研究，尤其着重于真蕨和种子蕨两大植物门类的分类、演化和古生态。近年来尝试与现代植物学交叉融合，以植物化石中的附属物为对象，揭示古植物中的生理、生态现象，探究早期森林的复杂程度与适应机制。
1. 山西自然博物馆，山西本溪组“华夏植物群”标本采集研究合作，2023.11–2024.11，主持；
2. 中国科学院青年创新促进会，2022312，早二叠世“植物庞贝”藤本植物研究，2022.01–2025.12，主持；
3. 国家自然科学面上项目，42172018，华北早二叠世真蕨植物的系统分类、演化和古生态，2022.01–2025.12，主持；
4. 国家自然科学青年基金，41802011，华夏植物群的植物附属物研究，2019.01–2022.12，主持；
5. 现代古生物学与地层学国家重点实验室基础课题，20182114，早二叠世“植物庞贝”的附属结构研究，2018.07–2021..06，主持
第一作者/通讯作者论文
1. Sun W.J., Zhou W.M.*, Wu Y.F., Psenicka J., Hiton J., Wang J.*, 2025. Scolecopteris oxydonta sp. nov., a new marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 332, 105231.
2. Li F.Y., Feng Z., Psenicka J., Wang J., Zhou W.M.*, 2024. Arthropod coprolites and wound reaction in the late Paleozoic climbing fern Hansopteris. Palaeoentomology, 007(5), 628–637.
3. Zhou W.M.*, Psenicka J., Hiton J., Wang J., 2024. Discovery of the enigmatic taeniopterid plant Ilfeldia from the lower Permian of North China and its palaeophytogeographical implications. Historical Biology, 10.1080/08912963.2024.2417806.
4. Zhou W.M.*, Psenicka J.*, Votockova Frojdova J., Wang J., Wan M.L., Feng Z., 2024. Two anachoropterid fern rachises from the in situ volcanic ash of the Whetstone Horizon (Kladno Formation, Pennsylvanian), Radnice Basin, Czech Republic. Palaeoworld, 33(2), 341–362.
5. Zhou W.M.*, He X.Y., Wang S.J., Psenicka J., Rößler R., Rothwell G.W., Galtier J., Hiton J., Wang J., 2023. (3005) Proposal to conserve the name Botryopteris Renault (fossil Pteridophyta) against Botryopteris C. Presl (Ophioglossaceae). Taxon, 72(6), 1377–1379.
6. Zhou W.M., Psenicka J., Bek J., Libertín M., Wang S.J., Wang J.*, 2023. A new species of Botryopteridium Doweld from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora and its evolutionary significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 311, 104849.
7. Zhou W.M., Wan M.L., Psenicka J., Wang J.*, 2022. Discovery of coprolites in an Early Permian fern mesophyll. Palaeoentomology, 005(1), 001–005.
8. Zhou W.M., Li D.D., Psenicka J., Boyce C.K., Wang S.J., Wang J.*, 2022. Diodonopteris virgulata sp. nov., a climbing fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora and its paleoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 304, 104699.
9. 孙伟, 陈明, 宋春彦, 谢尚克,李学仁, 周卫明*, 2022. 青海达哈煤矿上二叠统大羽羊齿植物的发现. 古生物学报, 61(3), 479–493.
10. Zhou W.M., Wan S., Wan M.L., Hilton J., Psenicka J., Wang J.*, 2021. Yangopteris ascendens (Halle) gen. et comb. nov., a climbing alethopterid pteridosperm from the Asselian (earliest Permian) Wuda Tuff Flora. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 294, 104282.
11. Zhou W.M., Psenicka J., Bek J, Wan M.L., Boyce C.K., Wang J.*, 2021. A new anachoropterid fern from the Asselian (Cisuralian) Wuda Tuff Flora. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 294, 104346.
12. Zhou W.M., D’Antonio M.P., Boyce C.K., Wang J.*, 2021. An upright psaroniaceous stump and two surrounding pecopteroids from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora. Palaeoworld, 30(3). 451–460.
13. Zhou W.M., Psenicka J., Hilton J., Wang J.*, 2021. Palaeobiogeographical implications of the earliest botryopterid ferns in Cathaysia. Historical Biology, 33(11), 2577–2583.
14. Zhou W.M., Chen B.Y., Sun W., He X.Z., Hilton J., Wang J.*, 2021. A new gigantopterid genus from the late Permian of the Daha Coalfield, Tibetan Plateau and its implication on plant-insect interactions. Historical Biology, 33(12), 3228–3240.
15. Zhou W.M., Kyi Pyar Aung, Liu L., Zhang Y.C., Than Zaw, Wang J., Shen S.Z.*, 2020. First record of Cisuralian–Guadalupian plant fossils from the Shan Plateau, eastern Myanmar. Palaeoworld, 29(1), 108–116.
16. Zhou W.M., Li D.D., Psenicka J., Boyce C.K., Wang J.*, 2019. A left–handed fern twiner in a Permian swamp forest. Current Biology, 29(22), R1172–R1173.
17. Zhou W.M., Wan M.L., Koll R., Wang J.*, 2018. Occurrence of earliest gigantopterid from the basal Permian of the North China Block and its bearing on evolution. Geological Journal, 53(2), 500–509.
18. Zhou W.M., Shi G.J., Zhou Z.Y., Wang J.*, 2017. Roof shale flora of Coal Seam 6 from the Asselian (Lower Permian) Taiyuan Formation of the Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia and its ecostratigraphic significance. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 91(1), 22–38.
19. 周卫明, 万明礼, 程晨, 颜梦晓, 王军, 2015.内蒙古乌达煤田早二叠世山西组湿地植被群落演替序列. 古生物学报, 54(1): 66–83.