Research Interest: Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics, Strongly Correlated Many-Body Physics, Computational Physics

Professor Sun received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1991 from Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is currently a distinguished professor, a Pujiang scholar, and associate dean of the Physics department. The specific research topics in his group are, but not limited to, nuclear high-spin states, property and application of nuclear isomers, structure of superheavy elements, nucleosynthesis in explosive stellar objects, mechanism of core collapse supernova, high temperature superconductors, strongly correlated many-electron systems, and quantum phase transition. He has more than 150 SCI publications, including those published in Nature, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters. Professor Sun also serves as a member of scientific advisory committee of national Heavy-Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou, is a guest professor of Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-editor of Chinese Science Bulletin. He is an adjunct professor of University of Tennessee, USA.