Xin Sun

Xin Sun is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Department of Biology. Their research interests include computational biology, ecology and biodiversity, and microbiology. Sun's work focuses on environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry, with an emphasis on understanding how microbes influence global biogeochemical cycles. Their research integrates field studies, metagenomics, microbial ecology experiments, and modeling to explore microbial community dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Sun holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has served as a Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Institution for Science (Stanford Campus).

Xin Sun is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania with expertise in Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Nitrogen, and Oceanography. Their work explores microbial community dynamics, nitrogen cycling, and biogeochemical processes in diverse environments such as soils, grasslands, and marine oxygen minimum zones. Key research areas include the role of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in nitrogen source preferences, nitrous oxide production and consumption, and the impact of environmental factors like oxygen and nitrogen availability on microbial processes. Sun's studies also examine the influence of microbial interactions on soil carbon stocks and the ecological dynamics of denitrification pathways in marine systems.