Song Sun
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Song Sun | |
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 Sun in Berkeley in 2022 | |
| Born | 1987 (age 38–39) Huaining County, Anhui, China |
| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Awards | Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Stony Brook University University of California, Berkeley Zhejiang University |
| Thesis | Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics |
| Doctoral advisor | Xiuxiong Chen |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/view/songsun |
Song Sun (Chinese: 孙崧; pinyin: Sūn Sōng, born in 1987) is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns geometry and topology. A Sloan Research Fellow, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 until 2023. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. As of 2024, Sun is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM), Zhejiang University.[1]
Sun attended Huaining High School in Huaining County, Anhui, China, before being admitted to the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002.[2] After graduating from the program with a B.S. in 2006, he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, obtaining his Ph.D. in mathematics (differential geometry) in 2010.[2][3] His doctoral advisor was Xiuxiong Chen, and his dissertation was titled "Kempf–Ness theorem and uniqueness of extremal metrics".[4]
Sun worked as a research associate at Imperial College London before becoming an assistant professor at Stony Brook University in 2013.[3] He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2014.[3] In 2018, he was appointed an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley,[5] where he was promoted to full professor in 2021.
He was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.[6] In 2021, he was awarded the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, for many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities.[7]
In January 2024, he returned to China and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM) at Zhejiang University.[8]
