Sun Binyong (; born November 1976) is a Chinese mathematician. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Repub ...

(CAS).

Early life and education

Sun was born in

Putuo District, Zhoushan Putuo District is a district of Zhoushan City, Zhejiang, China with a population of 378,805. The district used to be a county. In 1987, it was combined with the neighbouring county of Dinghai to form the city of Zhoushan. Basic Information ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by ...

in November 1976, the second of three sons. His mother Liu Yadi () is a housewife. His father Sun Kaizhu () was a carpenter. He attended Shuangtang Middle School, Putuo Middle School and the High School attached to Tsinghua University. After high school, he entered

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the ...

, where he graduated in 1999. In December 2004 he earned his doctorate degree from

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Clear Water Bay Peninsula, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991 by the British Hong Kong Government, it was the territory's third institu ...

under the supervision of

Li Jianshu Li Jianshu (; born 1959), also known as Jian-Shu Li, is a Chinese mathematician working in representation theory and automorphic forms. He is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at Zhejiang University and ...

Career

From January to September 2005 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

in Switzerland. In September 2005 he became research associate at the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Sciences,

(CAS), and was promoted to researcher in 2011.

Personal life

Sun is married and has a daughter.

Honours and awards

* 2014 Chen Jiageng Youth Science Award * June 2, 2016 Young Scientist Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences * August 14, 2018

State Natural Science Award The State Science and Technology Prizes () are the highest honors conferred by the national government of the People's Republic of China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contribut ...

(Second Class) * November 22, 2019 Academician of the

(CAS)

References

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