2013-9至2016-6，中国科学院海洋研究所，海洋生物，博士

2010-9至2013-6，厦门大学，海洋生物，硕士

2006-9至2010-6，湖北师范学院，生命科学，学士

2021-6至现在，中国科学院海洋研究所，海洋生物分类与系统演化实验室，副研究员

2018-9至2021-5，中国科学院海洋研究所，海洋生物分类与系统演化实验室，助理研究员

2016-8至2018-8，中国科学院海洋研究所，博士后

1．国家自然科学基金青年项目，西太平洋深海六放海绵纲分类和动物地理学研究（41706188），2018-01至2020-12，25万，主持，已结题。

2.国家重点研发项目子课题，深渊宏观生物生命过程、环境适应与演化（2018YFC0310802），2018-08至2021-12，55万元，主持，已结题。

1.Gong Lin, Lim Swee-Cheng, Yang Mei, Li Xinzheng. 2021. A new species of Macandrewia (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida, Macandrewiidae) from a seamount in the Western Pacific Ocean.Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 39: 1730–1739        

2.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng, Lee Kwen-Shen. 2020. Phylogeny of two new pheronematid sponges from the Caroline Seamount and South China Sea.Contributions to Zoology, 89(2): 175-187.        

3.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng. 2020. A new species of Euplectellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Lyssacinosida) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean.Bulletin of Marine Science, 96(1): 181-191.        

4.Chu Yanlin^#,Gong Lin^#, Li Xinzheng. 2020.Leucosolenia qingdaoensissp. nov. (Porifera, Calcarea, Calcaronea, Leucosolenida, Leucosoleniidae), a new species from China.ZooKeys, 906: 1-11.        

5.Gong Lin, Li Xinzheng, Xiao Ning, He Lisheng, Zhang Haibin, Wang Yong. 2020. Rediscovery of the abyssal species Peniagone leander Pawson and Foell, 1986 (Holothuroidea: Elasipodida: Elpidiidae): the first record from the Mariana Trench area.Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 38 (4): 1319-1327.

6.Kou Qi^#,Gong Lin^#, Li Xinzheng. 2018. A new species of the deep-sea spongicolid genusSpongicoloides(Crustacea, Decapoda, Stenopodidea) and a new species of the glass sponge genusCorbitella(Hexactinellida, Lyssacinosida, Euplectellidae) from the Mariana Trench, with a novel commensal relationship between the two genera.Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 135(2018): 88-107.        

7.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng. 2018. A new species of Pheronematidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Amphidiscosida) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean.Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 37(10): 175-179.        

8.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng. 2017. A new genus and species of Pheronematidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Amphidiscosida) from the western Pacific Ocean.Zootaxa, 4337(1): 132-140.        

9.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng, Qiu Jianwen. 2015. Two new species of Hexactinellida (Porifera) from the South China Sea.Zootaxa, 4034(1): 182-192.

10.Gong Lin,Li Xinzheng, Qiu Jianwen. 2014. A new species ofLophophysema(Porifera, Hexactinellida, Hyalonematidae) from the South China Sea.Zootaxa, 3884(6): 553-560.