Zhang Qun, born in July 1991, is an associate professor at the Institute of Anthropology, School of Society and Anthropology, Xiamen University, and a candidate for the cultivation of young talents in Nanqiang. He received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Jilin University in June 2018, conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from December 2018 to January 2021, and joined Xiamen University as an associate professor in May 2021.
Zhang Qun's main research areas are bioarchaeology, human skeletal archaeology, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology. Through the use of interdisciplinary means, from the perspective of skeletal morphology and paleopathology, reconstruct the history of ancient human social life and ancient human health, and carry out forensic anthropological research on missing victims through skeletal analysis. In recent years, he has worked in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, The American Journal of Human Biology, the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, He has published more than 30 academic papers in first-class journals at home and abroad, such as the Journal of Anthropology. He is currently a fellow of the American Society of Honor for Scientific Research (Sigma Xi), the American Society of Physical Anthropology (AAPA), the American Society of Paleopathology (PPA), the Royal Society of Anthropology (RAI), the International Society of International Medicine (IALM), the European Society of Forensic Anthropology (FASE), the Secretary General of the Global Health History Program (Asia Module), and an Honorary Fellow of the International Research Center for Bioarchaeology at Jilin University.
In recent years, Zhang Qun has conducted identification, analysis and research on human remains excavated from more than 30 archaeological sites at home and abroad, based on the intersection of archaeology, anthropology and biology, and modern medicine, expanding the depth of research on ancient populations in East Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing important anthropological evidence for exploring the physical composition and changes of various groups in the process of the formation of the history of the Chinese nation, and revealing the demographic structure, geographical changes, livelihood methods, health status and behavior patterns of ancient populations in China.
Zhang Qun also obtained China's first "European Class II forensic anthropological identification qualification", as the "first person in China" to go to the International Committee on Missing Persons (ICMP) Banja Luka base and the Cyprus Missing Persons Committee (CMP) to participate in the forensic anthropological identification of the dead and missing in the "Bosnia and Herzegovina War" and the "Serbian-Turkish Conflict", and was received by the United Nations Special Representative Paul-Henri Arni and the Chinese ambassador to Cyprus Huang Xingyuan, Become the only Chinese scholar in this field who has received international standardization training and has practical experience, serving the major strategic needs of the industry and the country, so as to exert the social value of anthropology.