Chenguang Sun
(Name in Chinese: 孙晨光)
Assistant Professor at Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor at Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Education
- 2014, Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Brown University
- 2010, M.Sc., Geological Sciences, Brown University
- 2007, B.Sc., Geology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Professional Experience
- 2021 – Present, Assistant Professor at UT Austin
- 2016 – 2021, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
- 2016, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
- 2014 – 2016, Postdoctoral Scholar/Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 2008 – 2014, Research/Teaching Assistant, Brown University
Honors/Awards
- 2022, Fellow of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe
- 2021, MSA Award, The Mineralogical Society of America
- 2021, MSA Fellow (Life), The Mineralogical Society of America
- 2014, Devonshire Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 2013, Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University
- 2012, AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, VGP Section
- 2007, Outstanding Student Paper Award, National Annual Symposium on Petrology & Geodynamics, China
- 2007, Best Senior Thesis Award, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Teaching Experience
- Spring 2024, Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, UT Austin
- Fall 2023, Solid Earth Processes, UT Austin
- Spring 2023, Thermodynamics of Geological Processes, UT Austin
- Fall 2022, Earth Materials, UT Austin
- Fall 2021, Thermodynamics of Geological Processes, UT Austin
- 2022 – Present, PhD Supervisor for Lucia Bellino
- 2021 – 2023, MS Supervisor for Caitlin Moeller
- 2016 –2019, Guest Lectures in Igneous Petrology, Rice University
- 06/2017 – 08/2017, Supervisor for REU intern, Rice University
- 08/2012 – 05/2013, Supervisor for senior thesis, Brown University
- 07/2015 – 12/2015, Supervisor for undergraduate intern, WHOI
- 09/2011 – 12/2011, Teaching Assistant in Mineralogy, Brown University
- 07/2008, Instructor of Field Geology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Services
To the Department/Jackson School:
- 2023 – Present, E-Beam Lab Advisory Committee
- 2023 – Present, LDE Faculty Annual Review Committee
- 2022 – Present, Co-organizer for the Robert L. Folk/Earle F. McBride Petrography contest
- 2022 – Present, Jackson School of Geosciences Equipment Committee
- 2021 – Present, Graduate Admissions & Support Committee
- 2021 – 2023, E-Beam Lab Manager Search Committee
- 2021 – 2023, Lithosphere & Deep Earth Program Curriculum Committee
- 2021 – 2022, Department of Geological Sciences Name Change Committee
- 2021, Faculty Guest of Jackson School Endowment Committee
- 2021, Guest Lecturer for Undergraduate Honors Research Program
- 2021, Judge for Jackson School of Geosciences Student Research Symposium
- 2024 – Present, MSA Communications Committee
- 2023, Convener for AGU Fall Meeting, "Origin, Distribution and Transport of Volatiles in Earth and Terrestrial Planets"
- 2023, NASA Panelist
- 2021, NASA Panelist
- 2019 – 2021, Reviewers for NSF and German Research Foundation
- 2019, Convener for AGU Fall Meeting, “Quantities, Movements, Forms, and Origins of Carbon and Other Volatile Elements in Earth and Planetary Bodies”
- 2017, Judge for Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting
- 2015, Convener for AGU Fall Meeting, “Advances in geothermobarometry and geospeedometry”
- 2015, Convener for AGU Fall Meeting, “Peridotite records of mantle dynamics”
- 2015, Convener for Goldschmidt Conference, “Advances in trace element partitioning”
- 2014 – Present, Journal Reviewer: Science Advances, Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Earth-Science Reviews, American Mineralogist, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), Lithos, American Journal of Science, and Tectonophysics.
Invited Seminars
- 2023, Carnegie Institution for Science; Volatile degassing workshop at IAVCEI
- 2021, Smithsonian Institution; UT Center for Planetary Systems Habitability; Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments Consortium (PCE3); The Mineralogical Society of America
- 2020, Brown University; University of Texas at Austin; University of Houston; University of Missouri at Columbia; Florida State University
- 2019, Princeton University
- 2018, Tulane University; University of Missouri at Columbia
- 2016, University of Texas at Austin; Texas A&M University; Stanford University; Dartmouth College; Rice University
- 2015, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; China University of Geosciences (Beijing); University of Chicago
- 2014, University of Chicago; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 2013, Boston University
Updated 05/10/2024