Center Director-人工光合作用与太阳能燃料中心

Licheng SUN

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chemistry Europe Fellow
(FRSC)
The Recipient of the Volvo Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Director: Licheng Sun

Biography

Prof. Licheng Sun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of artificial photosynthesis, received his B.S. (1984), M.S. (1987), and Ph.D. (1990) degrees from Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He served as Chair Professor in Molecular Electronics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and Director of DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices. His career starts as a Research Assistant at Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (1990–1992), then a Postdoctor at Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany (1992–1993). During1993–1995, he performed his research as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Subsequently, he joined KTH as an Assistant Professor, Sweden (1995–1999), became an Associate Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden (1999–2004), and was appointed as Chair Professor in Molecular Devices, Department of Chemistry at KTH in 2004. Since 2017, he served as a Distinguished Professor by the Swedish Research Council (VR Rådsprofessor). In 2020, Prof. Sun joined Westlake University as a Chair Professor of Chemistry, and serves as the Director of the Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels @Westlake.

Professor Licheng Sun has engaged in applied basic research at the forefront of solar fuels and solar cell for a long time. He has accumulated a deep research foundation in key scientific issues related to artificial photosynthesis, including the design and synthesis of efficient water oxidation catalysts, the mechanism of oxygen–oxygen bond formation, the design of functional devices for photocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen, photoelectrocatalytic carbon dioxide/nitrogen reduction, and the design and preparation of novel hole-transport materials for perovskite solar cells. Professor Sun has published over 800 SCI papers and reviews such as Science, Nature Chemistry, Nature Catalysis, Chemical Reviews, Energy & Environmental Science, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials, with more than 85,000 citations and an h-index of 143. As the chief scientist, he has organized and completed several major research projects in solar fuels and solar cells. He has successfully organized multiple large-scale international academic conferences as conference chair or co-chair. He has been invited to write reviews multiple times, and he has delivered over 200 invited lectures at domestic and international conferences, including Plenary and Keynote Lectures. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate for multiple consecutive years. He previously served as Editorial Board Chair of the German Wiley journal ChemSusChem, Associate Editor of the Dutch Elsevier journal Journal of Energy Chemistry, and currently serves as Associate Editor of ACS Artificial Photosynthesis. He has received international awards and academic honors, including the Wallmark Prize, the Ulla och Stig Holmquist Prize in Organic Chemistry, the Arrhenius Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China. For more information, please visit: https://www.westlake.edu.cn/faculty/licheng-sun.html

Director: Licheng Sun

Academic Achievement