Sept 2020-until now, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Professor Leader of Urban Soil Ecology Group 

2016–2020, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Gottingen, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Host: Prof. Stefan Scheu, head of the section Animal Ecology

 2015-2016, Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter Host: Prof. Kevin J. Gaston, director of ESI

2011-2019, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor

2014-2016, Jilin Agricultural University, Postdoc Host: Prof. Yu Li (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering) 

2006-2011, Nanjing University, Ph.D. candidate Zoology Supervisor: Prof. Jian-xiu Chen 

2009-2010, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Joint Ph.D. student (Fellowship from China Scholarship Council), Zoology Supervisor: Dr. Deharveng Louis

 Short-time visit:

2012.08, 2014.08, 2016.12, 2017.07 and 2018.01 in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 2015.10, 2017.01, 2018.02, 2019.10 in Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences

How global change factors influence the soil biodiversity and explores the underlying mechanisms.

1. Xin Sun*, Craig Liddicoat, Alexei Tiunov, Bin Wang, Yiyue Zhang, Changyi Lu, Zhipeng Li, Stefan Scheu, Martin F. Breed*, Stefan Geisen*, Yong-Guan Zhu. Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities. npj Urban Sustainability, 2023, 3: 5.
2. Xin Gong#, Xin Sun#*，Madhav P. Thakur, Zhihong Qiao, Haifeng Yao, Manqiang Liu, Stefan Scheu, Yong-Guan Zhu*. Climate and edaphic factors drive soil nematode diversity and community composition in urban ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023, 180: 109010.
3. Zhihong Qiao#, Bin Wang#, Haifeng Yao, Zhipeng, Li, Stefan Scheu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Xin Sun*. Urbanization and greenspace type as determinants of species and functional composition of collembolan communities. Geoderma, 2022, 428: 116175.
4. Alain Isabwe#, Haifeng Yao#, Shixiu Zhang, Yuji Jiang, Martin F. Breed, Xin Sun*. Spatial assortment of soil organisms supports the size-plasticity hypothesis. ISME Communications, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00185-6.
5. Zhijing Xie#, Ting-Wen Chen#, Mikhail Potapov, Feng Zhang, Donghui Wu*, Stefan Scheu, Xin Sun*. Ecological and evolutionary processes shape belowground springtail communities along an elevational gradient. Journal of Biogeography, 2022, 49: 469–482.
6. Xin Sun, Yinhuan Ding, Michael C. Orr, Feng Zhang*. Streamlining universal single-copy ortholog and ultraconserved element design: a case study in Collembola. Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020, 49: 469–482.
7. Xin Sun*, Franca Marian, Christian Bluhm, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu. Response of Collembola to the addition of nutrients along an altitudinal gradient of tropical montane rainforests. Applied Soil Ecology, 2020, 147: 103382.

Multi-scale Collembola diversity in the temperate forests of the East Asia: Changbai Mountains (China) and Sikhote-Alin Range (Russia); Source of funding: the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; period: 2018-2019; person in charge

Altitudinal diversity pattern and its underlying mechanisms of Onychiuridae (Collembola) in the Changbai Mountains; Source of funding: the National Natural Science Foundation of China; period: 2016-2019; person in charge

Soil animal biodiversity maintenance, protection and its ecological service function under long-term cultivation influence in black soil farmland of Northeast China; Source of funding: the National Natural Science Foundation of China; period: 2015-2019; principal member

Taxonomy of Collembola and the biological characteristics of the dominant species on edible fungi in China; Source of funding: the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China; period: 2015-2016; person in charge

Systematics of the Family Onychiuridae from China (Collembola: Poduromorpha); Source of funding: the National Natural Science Foundation of China; period: 2014-2016; person in charge

Taxonomy and biodiversity of Collembola in Northeast China; Source of funding: Chinese Academy of Sciences; period: 2013-2017; person in charge