 BSc (1999, Capital Normal University, China; Major: Mathematics)
 MSc (2002, Capital Normal University, China; Supervisor: Yici Zhang)
 PhD (2005, Beijing Normal University, China; Supervisor: Laifu Liu)
 Postdoc (2006-2008, National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University; Supervisor: Yu-Feng Zang)
 Joint Postdoc (2006-2008, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Supervisor: Yu-Feng Zang/Tianzi Jiang)
 Postdoc (2008-2010, Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience, Child Study Center, New York University, Supervisor: Michael P. Milham)
 Associate Research Scientist (2008-2010, Langone Medical Center, School of Medicine, New York University, Supervisor: Michael P. Milham)

 2020.04-present: Professor, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China
 2019.08-2020.03: Group Leader, Innovative Research Group of Lifespan Brain-Mind Development and its Genetic-Environmental Association, CAS Institute of Psychology, China
 2017.12-2020.03: Director, Research Center for Lifespan Development of Mind and Brain (CLIMB), CAS Institute of Psychology, China
 2017.07-2020.03: Director, Research Section on Human Lifespan Development, Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China
 2016.10-2020.03: Team Leader, Lifespan Connectomics and Behavior Team, CAS Institute of Psychology, China
 2015.06-2020.03: Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, CAS Institute of Psychology, China
 2014.06-2020.03: Principal Investigator, CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, China
 2012.06-2020.03: Full Research Professor, CAS Institute of Psychology, China
 2010.12-2012.06: Distinguished Research Professor, CAS Institute of Psychology, China

Pioneering developmental population neuroscience through lifespan neuroimaging. My group establishes neuropsychometric foundations, creates related open resources, delineates brain-mind developmental mechanisms from childhood to adolescence, and models lifespan dynamics to uncover principles of embodied intelligence, collectively advancing a new paradigm for understanding the human brain across lifespan.

[1] Zuo XN (2026) The BrainNet imperative: why global brain science needs its own ImageNet moment. Science Bulletin, doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.02.005.

[2] Zhuo Z, et al (2026) Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations. Nature Neuroscience, 29, 420-434.

[3] Chen LZ, Zuo XN (2025) Intellectual ability and cortical homotopy development in children and adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 75, 101596.

[4] Gong ZQ, Zuo XN (2025) Dark brain energy: Toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 278-297. (Read Our Reply to Related Commentaries: Illuminating brain's "dark energy": a living lens of spontaneous slow oscillations)

[5] Dong HM, Zhang XH, Labache L, Zhang S, Ooi LQR, Yeo BTT, Margulies DS, Holmes AJ, Zuo XN (2024) Ventral attention network connectivity is linked to cortical maturation and cognitive ability in childhood. Nature Neuroscience, 27, 2009-2020.

[6] Jiang C, He Y, Betzel RF, Wang YS, Xing XX, Zuo XN (2023) Optimizing network neuroscience computation of individual differences in human spontaneous brain activity for test-retest reliability. Network Neuroscience, 7, 1080-1108.

[7] Fan XR, et al (2023) A longitudinal resource for population neuroscience of school-age children and adolescents in China. Scientific Data, 10, 545.

[8] Zhou ZX, Chen LZ, Milham MP, Zuo XN; Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium (2023) Six cornerstones for translational brain charts. Science Bulletin, 68, 795-799.

[9] Bethlehem RAI, Seidlitz J, White SR, et al (2022) Brain charts for the human lifespan. Nature, 604, 525-533.

[10] Zhou Q, Liu S, Jiang C, He Y, Zuo XN; Chinese Color Nest Consortium (2021) Charting the human amygdala development across childhood and adolescence: Manual and automatic segmentation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52, 101028.

[11] Liu S, Wang YS, Zhang Q, Zhou Q, Cao LZ, Jiang C, Zhang Z, Yang N, Dong Q, Zuo XN; Chinese Color Nest Consortium (2021) Chinese Color Nest Project: An accelerated longitudinal brain-mind cohort. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52, 101020.

[12] Dong HM, Margulies DS, Zuo XN, Holmes AJ (2021) Shifting gradients of macroscale cortical organization mark the transition from childhood to adolescence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118, e2024448118.

[13] Dong HM, Castellanos FX, Yang N, Zhang Z, Zhou Q, He Y, Zhang L, Xu T, Holmes AJ, Thomas Yeo BT, Chen F, Wang B, Beckmann C, White T, Sporns O, Qiu J, Feng T, Chen A, Liu X, Chen X, Weng X, Milham MP, Zuo XN (2020) Science Bulletin, 65, 1924-1934.

[14] Zuo XN, Xu T, Milham MP (2019) Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 768-771.

[15] Zuo XN, He Y, Betzel RF, Colcombe S, Sporns O, Milham MP (2017) Human Connectomics across the Life Span. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 32-45.