Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Temple University
1901 North 13th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
Tel: 215-204-4327
Fax: 215-204-1532
E-mail: ygsun@temple.edu
Web: sites.temple.edu/nanosungroup/
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (w/ John Rogers)
Postdoc 01/2004 ~ 07/2006
University of Washington at Seattle (w/ Younan Xia)
Postdoc 03/2001 ~ 12/2003
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
PhD 09/1996 ~ 02/2001
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
BS 09/1992 ~ 07/1996
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor (tenure-track), Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 01/2016 ~
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 01/2011 ~ 12/2013
Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 01/2010 ~ 12/2015
Assistant Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 08/2006 ~ 12/2009
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Materials Chemistry Frontiers Best Poster Prize at the 2nd International Symposium on Hollow Nanostructured Materials (ISHNM 2019), Royal Society of Chemistry/Chinese Chemical Society
2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field Category, Clarivate Analytics
2018 NML Researcher Award 2018, by the journal of Nano-Micro Letters
2017 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Award for Outstanding Young Scientists by the journal “Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers” of Royal Society of Chemistry/Chinese Chemical Society
2017 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2016 List of Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Engineering by Elsevier Scopus data
2015 Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science, Thomson Reuters
2014 Reuters’ list of The World’s Most Influential Minds of 2014
06/2014 Highly Cited Researchers 2014 in Chemistry (2002-2012), Thomson Reuters
06/2014 Highly Cited Researchers 2014 in Materials Science (2002-2012), Thomson Reuters
02/2011 Top 100 Materials Scientists with highest impact score (2000-2010), Rank #5, Thomson Reuters
02/2011 Top 100 Chemists with highest impact score (2000-2010), Rank #62, Thomson Reuters
2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2007 DOE Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award