| Zhang Menghan, Principal Investigator, Doctoral Supervisor, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Intelligent Complex Systems, Fudan University Principal Investigator, Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University |
Biography：
Zhang Menghan was born in 1987 in Shanghai. He is currently a Junior Principal Investigator and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Institute of Modern Linguistics at Fudan University, a dual-appointed PI at the School of Life Sciences and the Institute of Human Phenomics at Fudan University, and a doctoral supervisor in biology. He received the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2021) and was named a Shanghai Shuguang Scholar (2020). He has led several National Natural Science Foundation projects, served as PI in the sub-project of major program of the National Social Science Foundation and as the principal investigator of sub-projects of the European Research Council's 'Horizon' program. His major research interests are in population genetics, language evolution and their co-evolution. He has also developed both software and hardware for identifying “language behavior” under the disease screening and monitoring and applied for several national patents. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published a lot of papers in high-level journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, PNAS and National Science Review, etc. He has won the Second Prize in the 15th Shanghai Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Shanghai Young Talent Award of Social Sciences, the Shanghai Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, and the Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow of Fudan University.
Professional Experience：
2005 – 2009 B.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University
2009 – 2014 Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Shanghai Normal University
2014 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology, Fudan University
2019 – current Junior Principal Investigator, Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University
2019 – current Junior Principal Investigator, Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University
Research Interests：
Investigating the co-evolution of genes and languages of human from interdisciplinary views of anthropology, linguistics, and population genetics.
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of languages.
Selective Publications：
1. Yuxin Tao#, Yuancheng Wei#, Jiaqi Ge#, Yan Pan#, Wenmin Wang, Qianqi Bi, Pengfei Sheng, Changzhong Fu, Wuyun Pan, Li Jin, Hong-Xiang Zheng*, Menghan Zhang*, Phylogenetic evidence reveals early Kra-Dai divergence and dispersal in the late Holocene. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 6924.
2. Hui Qiao, Jingze Tan, Shaoqing Wen, Menghan Zhang*, Shuhua Xu*, Li Jin*. De Novo Dissecting the Three Dimensional Facial Morphology of 2379 Han Chinese Individuals. Phenomics. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43657-023-00109-x.
3. Baihui Wu, Hanzhi Zhang, Menghan Zhang*, Phylogenetic insight into the origin of tones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023. 290: 20230606
4. Menghan Zhang*, Tao Gong*. Structural Variability Shows Power-Law Based Organization of Vowel Systems. Frontiers in psychology, 2022,13: 801908-801908.
5. Menghan Zhang#, Shi Yan#, Wuyun Pan, Li Jin*. Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic. Nature, 2019, 569(7754): 112-115.
6. Menghan Zhang#, Hong-Xiang Zheng#, Shi Yan*, Li Jin*. Reconciling the father tongue and mother tongue hypotheses in Indo-European populations. National Science Review. 2019, 6(2): 293 - 300.
7. Menghan Zhang. Diversity of language structure is shaped by demographic activities. Physics of life reviews. 2018, 26: 146 -148.
8. Menghan Zhang*, Tao Gong*. How many is enough?-Statistical principles for lexicostatistics. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Science). 2016. Vol 7: 1916.
9. Menghan Zhang, Tao Gong*. Principles of parametric estimation in modeling language competition. PNAS. 2013. 110(24): 9698-9703.
