Academician Robert Reisz, male, born in August 1947, doctor, senior professor. Graduated in biology from McGill University, Canada. He was vice president of Graduate School of University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada, and head of department of biology. Now he is a distinguished professor of paleontology of University of Toronto. He is mainly engaged in the evolution research of early quadruped, and has made outstanding contributions to the research of the evolution of bipedal amniotic membrane animals, bipedal reptiles and dinosaur embryos. He has published dozens of scientific papers with important influence in top journals such as Nature and Science, and so far, his published papers retrieved by ISI have reached more than 200. He has been awarded many academic honors, such as academician of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Canada, and is one of the most famous paleontologists in the world.

Professor Reisz's academic achievements have been widely praised by the international scientific community and many professional societies. He has been employed as a senior visiting scientist by the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, Carnegie Museum of Nature in Pittsburgh, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Institute of Paleontology of Russian Academy of Sciences, National Museum of Natural and History in France and other internationally renowned research institutions. In 2016 and 2017, he was successively employed as Honorary Professor and Tang Aoqing Professor, honorary director of Dinosaur Evolution Research Center of Jilin University, and foreign chief scientist of "Paleontology and Paleochemistry （PalPac）" research team of ICFS. Since March 2018, he has been employed as "high-level foreign expert" of Jilin University.

Publications

1. Reisz, R. R. and Smith, M.M. 2001. Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 million years. Nature 411: 548.

2. Rybczynski, N. and Reisz, R.R. 2001. Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature 411: 684- 687.

3. Berman, D.S., Reisz, R.R., Henrici, A.A., Sumida, S.S. and Martens, T. 2000. Early Permian Bipedal Reptile. Science 290: 969- 972.

4. Reisz, R.R., and Sues, H-D. 2000. The ‘feathers' of Longisquama. Nature 408: 428.