男，1978年生，首都师范大学副教授。2007年毕业于中国农业大学，获博士学位；主要从事化石昆虫分类、系统发育系统学及动物学的教学和科研工作。2009年应邀前往美国北达科他州立大学（North Dakota State University）做为期半年的访问学者，与David A. Rider教授进行蝽次目系统发育学合作研究；2010年应邀前往美国国家自然历史博物馆（Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History），与Thomas J. Henry教授进行长蝽总科和臭虫次目合作研究。2009年获中国昆虫学会青年科学技术奖，北京市昆虫学会优秀科技论文二等奖。

科研项目：

1.北京市优秀人才项目“北京地区蝽类昆虫的早期演化及其对环境变化的响应”

2.国家自然科学基金青年基金项目“中国东北中生代晚期异翅目化石分类及系统演化研究”

3.国家科技基础条件平台工作重点项目——动物标本标准化管理与数字表达

4.973子课题项目：“国家重点基础研究发展计划资助”

5.现代古生物学和地层学国家重点实验室2011年开放课题，‘中生代蝽次目昆虫的辐射与分异’

发表文章：

1、姚云志，彩万志，任东，2004. 中国异翅目化石的研究现状. 动物分类学报. 29: 33-37.

2、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2006. The first discovery of fossil rhopalids (Heteroptera: Coreoidea) from Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa,1269: 57-68. (SCI)

3、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2006. Fossil flower bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha: Cimicoidea) from the Late Jurassic of Northeast China, including a new family, Vetanthocoridae. Zootaxa, 1360: 1-40. (SCI)

4、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2006. New fossil rhopalids (Heteroptera: Coreoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa,1384: 41-58. (SCI)

5、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2006. Sinopachymeridium popovi, A new fossil true bug (Heteroptera: Pachymeridiidae) from the Midde Jurassic of inner Mogolia, China. Annales Zoologici,56: 753-756. (SCI)

6、 Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2007. The first fossil Cydnidae (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea) from the Late Mesozoic of China. Zootaxa, 1338: 59-68. (SCI)

7、Yao, Y.Z, Cai, W.Z & Ren, D. 2007. The oldest fossil plant bug (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa,1442: 37-41. (SCI)

8、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai, W.Z. & Ren, D. 2007. Pristinochterus gen.n. (Hemiptera: Ochteridae) from the Upper Mesozoic of northeastern China. Europian Journal of Entomology,104: 827-835. (SCI)

9、Yao, Y.Z.,Cai W.Z. & Ren, D. 2008. New Jurassic fossil of Pachymeridiidae (Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha) from Northeast China. Acta Geologica Sinica,82(1): 35-47. (SCI)

10、Zhang, W.T., Yao, Y.Z*, Ren, D. & Zhao, Y.Y. 2011. The first description of fossil Naucoridae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) from Late Mesozoicof China. Acta Geologica Sinica,85（2）：490-500. (SCI)

11、Lu, Y., Yao, Y.Z* &Ren, D. 2011. Two new genera and species of fossil true bugs (Heteroptera: Pachymeridiidae) from northeastern China. Zootaxa. 2835: 41–52.(SCI)

12、Yao Y.Z., Zhang W.T., and Ren D. 2011. The first report of Mesoveliidae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from the Yixian Formation of China and its taxonomic significance. Alcheringa：An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 36: 1-10. （SCI）

13、Yao Y.Z., Zhang W.T., Ren D.& Shih C.K. 2011. New fossil Ochteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Ochteroidea) from the Upper Mesozoic of north-eastern China, with phylogeny of the family. Systematic Entomology,36, 589–600.（SCI）

出版专著：

1、Ren, D., Shih C.K., Gao, T.P., Yao, Y.Z.& Zhao, Y.Y. (2010) Silent Stories – Insect Fossil Treasures from Dinosaur Era of the Northeastern China. Science Press, Beijing, 322 pp.

2. 姚云志. 2010. 昆虫化石标本的整理与保存. 87-90. In. 薛大勇. 2010. 动物标本采集、保藏、鉴定和信息共享. 中国标准出版社. 442页。