教育背景：
1. 2018年9月—2021年12月，吉林大学地球科学学院，矿产普查与勘探专业，博士
2. 2015年9月—2018年6月，吉林大学地球科学学院，矿产普查与勘探专业，硕士
3. 2011年9月—2015年6月，黑龙江科技大学资源与环境工程学院，资源勘查工程专业，本科

学术成果：
1. Kun Zhang, Eva E. Stüeken, Christophe Thomazo, Zibin Zhao, Pavel S. Minyuk, Shixi Cai, Kai Yang, Qing Chang, Ziping Liu, Edith Bai*. 2025. Volcanic ash drives contrasting redox shifts and biogeochemical feedbacks in ancient marine and lacustrine systems. Communications Earth & Environment, 6: 850.
2. Kun Zhang, Ziping Liu, Zitao Xu, Qing Chang, Douaa Fathy, Rong Liu*, Edith Bai*. 2024. Microbial and hydrothermal dolomite formation in Early Cretaceous lacustrine sediments in Yin'e Basin: Insights from petrology and geochemistry. Sedimentary Geology, 471: 106739.
3. Kun Zhang, Rong Liu*, Edith Bai*, Zibin Zhao, Giovan Peyrotty, Douaa Fathy, Qing Chang, Ziping Liu, Kai Yang, Chuan Xu, Zhaojun Liu. 2023. Biome responses to a hydroclimatic crisis in an Early Cretaceous (Barremian–Aptian) subtropical inland lake ecosystem, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 622: 111596.
4. Kun Zhang, Rong Liu*, Wenjing Ding, Li Li, Zhaojun Liu. 2022. The influence of Early Cretaceous paleoclimate warming event on sedimentary environment evolution and organic matter sources in Yin'e Basin: Evidence from petrology and molecular geochemistry. International Journal of Coal Geology, 254: 103972.
5. Kun Zhang*, Rong Liu*, Zhaojun Liu, Bile Li, Gaofei Liu, Xu Yan, Li Li. 2022. Terrestrial records of Early Cretaceous paleoclimate fluctuations in the Yin'e Basin, northern China: Evidence from sedimentology and palynomorphs in lacustrine sediments. Sedimentary Geology, 432: 106110.