1980-1985年：长春地质学院地质系

1985-1988年：中国地质科学院矿床学，获硕士学位

1988-1998年：中国地质科学院沈阳地质矿产研究所，助理研究员

1998-2004年：日本东京工业大学地球与行星科学系，获理学博士学位。

                      期间参加了日－美合作研究夏威夷海底火山作用研究项目，从事夏威夷玄武岩与地幔柱成因研究

2004-2005年：日本东京工业大学研究助理

2005-2007年：日本海洋研究开发机构地球内部演化中心，JSPS特别研究员

2007年4月-今：中科院广州地球化学研究所，研究员。

(只列本人为第一和通讯作者论文)

Ren* Z.Y., E. Takahashi, Y. Orihashi, K.M.T. Johnson (2004). Petrogenesis of Tholeiitic lavas from the Submarine Hana Ridge, Haleakala volcano, Hawaii. Journal of Petrology, Vol. 45, 2067-2099.

Ren* Z.Y., Stephanie S., Takahashi E., Hirano, N., Hirata, T. (2005). The chemical structure of the Hawaiian mantle plume. Nature, Vol. 436, 837-840.

Ren* Z.Y., T. Shibata, M. Yoshikawa, K. Johnson, E. Takahashi (2006). Isotope Compositions of Submarine Hana Ridge Lavas, Haleakala Volcano, Hawaii: Implications for Source Compositions, Melting Process and the Structure of the Hawaiian Plume. Journal of Petrology, Vol. 47, 255-275.

Ren* Z.Y., T. Hanyu, T. Miyazaki, Q. Chang, H. Kawabata, T. Takahashi, Y. Hirahara, A. R.L. Nichols, and Y. Tatsumi (2009). Geochemical Differences of the Hawaiian Shield Lavas: Implications for Melting Process in the Heterogeneous Hawaiian Plume. Journal of Petrology, Vol. 50, 1553-1573.

Hong L.B., Zhang Y. H., Qian S. P., Liu J. Q., Ren* Z. Y., Xu Y. G. (2013). Constraints from melt inclusions and their host olivines on the petrogenesis of Oligocene-Early Miocene Xindian basalts, Chifeng area, North China Craton. Contrib Mineral Petrol, Vo.165, 2, P305-326.

Zhang Y., Ren* Z. Y., and Xu Y. G. (2013). Sulfur in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Emeishan picrites:Implications for S degassing and its impact on environment. Journal of Geophysical Research. 118, 4063–4070.

 Zhang L., Ren* Z. Y., Nichols, A. R.L., Zhang, Y. H., Zhang, Y., Qian, S. P., Liu, J. Q., 2014. Lead isotope analysis of melt inclusions by LA-MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29, 1393-1405.

Liu J. Q, Ren* Z.Y., Alexander R. L. Nichols, Song M.S., Qian S.P., Zhang Y., Zhao P.P. (2015). Petrogenesis of Late Cenozoic Basalts from North Hainan Island: Contraints from Melt Inclusions and Their Host Olivines. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 152, 89-121.

Qian S.P., Ren* Z.Y., Zhang L., Hong L.B., Liu J.Q. (2015). Chemical and Pb isotope composition of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Hannuoba basalts, North China Craton: Implications for petrogenesis and mantle source. Chemical Geology, 401, 111-125.

Ren* Z-Y., Wu, Y-D., Zhang, L., Nichols, A.R.L., Hong, L-B., Zhang, Y-H., Zhang, Y., Liu, J-Q., Xu, Y-G., Primary magmas and mantle sources of Emeishan basalts constrained from major element, trace element and Pb isotope compositions of olivine-hosted melt inclusions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,  2017, 208, 63-85.

Qian S.P., Ren* Z.Y., Wysoczanski Richard, Zhang L., Zhang Y.H., Hong L.B., Ding X.L., Wu Y.D.. Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous basaltic lavas from the North China Craton: Implications for cratonic destruction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2017, 122 (3), 1900-1918.

Zhang Y.H., Ren* Z.Y., Hong L.B., Zhang Y, Zhang L., Qian S.P., Xu Y.G., Chen L.L. (2017). Differential partial melting process for temporal variations of Shandong basalts revealed by melt inclusions and their host olivines. Gondwana Research, 49, 205-221.

Zhang L., Ren* Z.Y., Wang Y. (2017). Melt inclusions in the olivine from the Nantianwan intrusion: Implications for the parental magma of Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide-bearing mafic-ultramafic intrusions of the _260 Ma Emeishan large igneous province (SW China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 134, 72-85.

Wang K., Wang* Y., Ren* Z.Y. (2018). Apatite-hosted melt inclusions from the Panzhihua gabbroic-layered intrusion associated with a giant Fe–Ti oxide deposit in SW China: insights for magma unmixing within a crystal mush. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 173:59

Qian S.P., Ren* Z.Y., Zhang L., Zhang L., Wu Y.D., Mei S.W., Xu X.B., Luo Q.C. (2018). Petrological and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Early Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks in the Central-East Asia: Implications for Crustal Growth and Evolution. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Doi: 10.1029/2017GC007327.

Wu Y.D., Ren* Z.Y., Monica R Monica, Zhang L., Qian S.P., Xu Y.G., Wang Y., Wang Y., Chen L.L. (2018). Melt diversity and magmatic evolution in the Dali Picrites, Emeishan Large Igneous Province. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 9635–9657.

主持：中科院百人计划择优支持项目、国家基金委重大研究计划以及其他面上项目等；

参加：国家“973”项目、中科院知识创新项目、中科院先导科技项目（B类）等。