Areas of Focus
- Computational Mineralogy
Work Experience
- 2013-03--Present Faculty Member, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Earth Sciences
- 2017-09--2018-09 Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London (UCL)
- 2011-06--2013-02 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota
- 2008-10--2011-02 Postdoctoral Researcher, CNR-Democritos, Italy
- 2003-09--2004-01 Research Assistant, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2004-02--2008-08 PhD in Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- 2000-09--2003-07 Master of Science in Physics, Tsinghua University
- 1995-09--2000-07 Bachelor of Engineering in Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Publications
- phq: A Fortran code to compute phonon quasiparticle properties and dispersions, Z. Zhang, D.-B. Zhang, Tao Sun, R.M. Wentzcovitch, 2019
- Effect of anharmonicity on the hcp to bcc transition in beryllium at high-pressure and high-temperature conditions, Jia-Wei Xian, Jun Yan, Hai-Feng Liu, Tao Sun, Gong-Mu Zhang, Xing-Yu Gao, Hai-Feng Song, 2019
- Melting properties from ab initio free energy calculations: Iron at the Earth's inner-core boundary, Tao Sun, J. P. Brodholt, Y-G. Li, L. Vocadlo, 2018
- Heterogeneous reactions of SO2 on the hematite(0001) surface, H. Zhao, X. Sheng, S. Fabris, D. R. Salahub, Tao Sun, L. Du, 2018
- Lattice anharmonicity, phonon dispersion, and thermal conductivity of PbTe studied by the phonon quasiparticle approach, Y. Lu, Tao Sun, D-B. Zhang, 2018
- Two-phase thermodynamic model for computing entropies of liquids reanalyzed, Tao Sun, J.-W. Xian, H. Zhang, Z.-G. Zhang, Y.-G. Zhang, 2017
- Thermal conductivity from phonon quasiparticles with subminimal mean free path in the MgSiO3 perovskite, D.-B. Zhang, P. B. Allen, Tao Sun, R. M. Wentzcovitch, 2017
- Premelting hcp to bcc Transition in Beryllium, Y. Lu, Tao Sun, P. Zhang, P. Zhang, D.-B. Zhang, R. M. Wentzcovitch, 2017
- Effects of Thermal Electronic Excitations on the Diffusion of Oxygen Adatoms on Graphene, Tao Sun, X. Yao, S. Fabris, 2016
- Relative stability and contrasting elastic properties of serpentine polymorphs from first-principles calculations, N. Ghaderi, H. Zhang, Tao Sun, 2015
- Dynamic Stabilization of Cubic CaSiO3 Perovskite at High Temperatures and Pressures from ab initio Molecular Dynamics, Tao Sun, D. B. Zhang, R. M. Wentzcovtich, 2014
- Phonon Quasiparticles and Anharmonic Free Energy in Complex Systems, D. B. Zhang, Tao Sun, R. M. Wentzcovtich, 2014
