Shicui Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Canada, a senior visiting scholar at the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in the USA, a JSPS Fellow at the University of Kagoshima in Japan, and a senior visiting scholar at the University of Essex in the UK. He previously served as vice dean and dean of the College of Marine Life Sciences, member of the Ministry of Education’s Teaching Guidance Committee for Biological Sciences and so on. Currently, he holds editorial positions on journals including “Mar. Biotech.” and “J. Oceanol. Limnol.”, the assistant editor-in-chief of the journal “Acta Oceanol. Sin.”, the vice president of the Shandong Society for Cell Biology and the Shandong Zoological Society. Furthermore, Shicui Zhang has edited two monographs and one textbook, contributed to three English monographs as an invited author, and published over 200 SCI-indexed papers. His research focuses on the evolutionary and developmental biology of ampioxus and the developmental and aging biology of fish.