Dr. Kuan Sun is a full Professor and a PhD supervisor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing University. He serves as the Vice Dean of the school; Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory for Education of Low-Grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems; Head of the Postgraduate Supervisor Team for Chongqing (Chongqing Municipal Education Commission); and Director of the International R&D Center for New Energy Materials and Devices (Chongqing Municipal Organization Department).

He has long been engaged in research on the principles and technologies for efficient use of renewable energy, with extensive experience in material design and device construction. Till September 2025, he has published more than 200 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, and Advanced Materials, with over 19,000 citations (Google Scholar), an H-index of 67. He has edited one textbook published by Springer, and contributed four chapters to scholarly monographs published by international publishers CRC Press, Wiley-Scrivener, and Wiley VCH. He has filed over 60 patents in the US, China, and Australia, with more than 30 granted. He has won several awards including the First Prize of the Chongqing Industry-Academia-Research Technology Innovation Award (Rank No. 1), two Second Prizes of the Chongqing Natural Science Award (Rank No. 1 and 2), and one Chongqing Science and Technology Achievement Award.

Due to his academic achievements, he has been listed among the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, Stanford University’s Global Top 2% Scientists, Research.com’s Top Scientists in Materials Science, and the Global Top 100,000 Scientists in The Global Researcher Database. He is also recognized as a National Young Talent in Science and Technology; a Chongqing Municipal Academic and Technical Leader; a Distinguished Expert under Chongqing’s “Hundred Talents Program”; a recipient of the “Exceptional Talent Program – Young Top Talent” and the “Distinguished Young Investigators Fund”.

Actively involved in social service, he serves as the Executive Deputy Editor of the Elsevier international journal DeCarbon, Deputy Editor of Materials Reports: Energy, Editorial Board member of Biofuel Research Journal, Executive Editor of Materials Review, Young Editorial Board member of SmartMat, and reviewer for more than 70 journals including Science. He was elected as a Standing Committee member of the Chongqing CPPCC and Vice President of the Chongqing Zhilian Association; he also serves as an executive director of the Chongqing Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Promotion Association, an expert member of the China Association for Science and Technology’s HaiZhi Program Chongqing Youth Committee, an expert member of the Chongqing Nanotechnology Industry and Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance’s Technical Committee, and a member of the Chongqing Young Science and Technology Leaders Association. He is also a member of the Chongqing PV Poverty Alleviation Expert Group.

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