舒德干团队，Professor Degan SHU received his undergraduate training in Paleontology at Peking (Beijing) University in 1964-1969, Master degree in Northwest University (Xi'an) and Ph. D in China University of Geosciences (Beijing); as visiting scholar in Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C., USA in 1988,Humboldt research fellow in University of Bonn in 1988-1989 and in University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 1994-1995, visiting scholar in Cambridge University, UK in 1998, was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of'Sciences in 2011. His research mainly focuses on the evolution of early deuterostomes and Cambrian Explosion. He discovered "the First Fish" Myllokunmingiida in life history, erected the extinct Phylum Vetulicolia, first proposed the concept of hypothesis "Cambrian Explosion as the unique three-episode event to create the Tree of Animals" in 2008. As a recipient of National First Grade Award of Natural Sciences, he has authored a dozen of publications in Nature and Science.
