(1) Theoretical Nuclear Physics

(2) Nuclear Astrophysics

(3) Computational Many-Body Physics

(4) High-Temperature Superconductivity

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 associated dean of the 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 130 SCI publications, including those published in Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, and Physics Letter B. 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.

1.     "Shell gaps and pn pairing in N = Z nuclei", Phys. Lett. B 671 (2009) 42

2.     "Rotation-driven prolate-to-oblate shape phase transition in 190W: A projected shell model study", Phys. Lett. B 659 (2008) 165

3.     "Phase transition in exotic nuclei along the N = Z line", Phys. Lett. B 656 (2007) 51

4.     "Nuclear isomers in super heavy elements as stepping stones toward the island of stability", Nature 442 (2006) 896

5.     "Long live isomer research"，Nature Phys. 1 (2005) 81

6.     "Nuclear structure of 178Hf related to the spin-16, 31-year isomer", Phys. Lett. B 589 (2004) 83

7.     "Nuclear Magnetic Dipole Properties and the Triaxial Deformation", Phys. Lett. B 533 (2002) 253

8.     "Transition Quadrupole Moments in Gamma-Soft Nuclei and the Triaxial Projected Shell Model", Phys. Lett. B 507 (2001) 115

9.     "Backbending Mechanism of 48Cr", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 1922

10.   "Theoretical Constraints for Observation of Superdeformed Bands in the Mass-60 Region"，Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 686

11.   "Scissors-Mode Vibrations and the Emergence of SU(3) Symmetry from Projected Deformed Mean Field"，Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 672

12.   "Systematic Description of Yrast Superdeformed Bands in Even-Even Mass-190 Region"，Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 2321

13.   "High Spin Spectroscopy with the Projected Shell Model", Phys. Reports 264 (1996) 375

14.   "Delta I = 4 Bifurcation without Explicit Fourfold Symmetry", Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 3398

15.   "Anomalous Crossing Frequency in Odd Proton Nuclei", Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 3483