Team - Jian Sun Research Group

Team Members

Prof. Jian Sun

孙建教授

Connection

School of Physics, Nanjing University

Tel: +86-(0)25-83687822

Fax: +86-(0)25-83595535

Email: jiansun(AT)nju.edu.cn

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6172-9100

Education

1998-2002, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, B.S.

2002-2007, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Ph.D

Employment

2007-2008, National Research Council Canada, Canada, NSERC fellow

2008-2012, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Humboldt Fellow/Research associate

2012-2013, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, Marie Curie Fellow

2013-present, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Professor

Honors/Awards

Distinguished Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2021)

Distinguished Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province (2015)

GRC Alvin van Valkenburg Award (2014)

"QR Program - Youth" (2013)

Marie Curie Fellowship, EU (2012)

The second prize of China National Natural Science Award (2011, the 5th contributor)

Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (2008)

NSERC Fellowship, Canada (2007)

Biography

Jian Sun is a professor in the physics School and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures at Nanjing University. He got his B.S. and PhD from Nanjing University at 2002 and 2007, respectively. After that, he spent 6 years and worked as a research fellow in NRC (Canada), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and University of Cambridge (UK). At 2013, he was recruited as a professor at Nanjing University. The main research interests of Professor Sun spreads in computational condensed matter physics, extreme condition physics, materials design and simulations, matters in the interior of planets. He developed several machine learning driven computational methods, including the machine learning and graph theory assisted universal structure searcher (MAGUS), the message passing machine learning atomic potential (HotPP), and co-developed the machine learning molecular dynamics engine (GPUMD); predicted many new materials and some of them have been verified by experiments; predicted the exotic states of matter at high pressure and high temperature, such as the superionic, plastic and collective diffusion states. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious scientific journals, including 26 papers in high profile journals (Nature Phys., PRL/PRX, PNAS and JACS). Professor Sun is a committee member of the high pressure physics branch of Chinese Physics Society, the computational materials science branch of Chinese Materials Research Society, and the high pressure chemistry branch of Chinese Chemistry Society, the deputy chief editor of Progress of Physics, and the editorial board member of Matter and Radation at Extremes, and The Journal of High Pressure Physics.