Kai Sun
Professor of Physics
University of Michigan
450 Church St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Email: sunkai@umich.edu
Phone: 734-764-0730
Office: 2245 Homer A. Neal Laboratory
Professional Preparation
- BS 2002, Physics, Peking University, China
Thesis: Properties of complex networks - PhD 2009, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis: Quantum liquid crystal phases in strongly correlated fermionic systems - JQI-PFC Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2012, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park.
Appointment
- 2012-2017 Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- 2017-2022 Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- 2022-Present Professor, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Honors and Awards
- APS Fellow (2023)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2015)
Research Interests
- Topological states of matter
- Strongly correlated systems