理学博士,副研究员,硕士生导师,玛丽居里学者。研究方向为昆虫起源与适应性演化。博士期间获德国学术交流中心DAAD资助在德国TU Freiberg研究古生代到中生代时期蛩蠊目昆虫区系分类;2015-2017在法国国家自然历史博物馆从事博士后工作,研究襀翅目昆虫的演化和古生物地理;2023年获玛丽居里学者计划资助,在英国布里斯托大学从事多新翅类昆虫适应性演化研究。至今在 Systematic Entomology, BMC Evolutionary Biology和Journal of Systematic Palaeontology等国际学术刊物上发表论文30余篇。
论文专著(#第一作者,*通讯作者):
1. Cui, Y. *, Bardin, J., Wipfler, B., Demers-Potvin, A., Bai, M., Tong, Y., Chen, G.N., Chen, H., Zhao, Z., Zhuo, D., Ren, D., & Béthoux, O., 2024. A winged relative of ice-crawlers in amber bridges the cryptic extant Xenonomia and a rich fossil record. Insect Science 31, 1645-1656.
2. Cui, Y. *, Brauner, S., Schneider, J. W., & Béthoux, O., 2022. Grylloblattidan insects from Sperbersbach and Cabarz (Germany), two new early Permian and insect-rich localities. Journal of Paleontology 96(2), 355-374.
3. Cui Y. *, Chen Z. T., & Engel M. S., 2020. New species of webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 113, 104457.
4. Wang J., Béthoux O., Ren D., & Cui Y. *, 2019. An insect wing discovered in the Early Permian Taiyuan Formation (Shanxi Province, China). Fossil Record, 22(2), 73-76.
5. Cui Y., Ren D. & Béthoux O., 2019. The Pangean journey of ‘south forestflies’ (Insecta: Plecoptera) revealed by their first fossils. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(3), 255-268.