Zhongchang Sun

Dr. Zhongchang Sun is a professor at Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He also serves as deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, CAS, as well as head of the Cooperation & Development Office at the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS). He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE), CAS in 2011. From 2016-2017, he visited the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina as a CSC (China Scholarship Council) scholar. He had been a visiting researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2013 supported by the DAAD scholarship. He was honored as Nanhai Young Talent in 2020 and CAS Distinguished Core Researcher in 2022. Recently, his research focuses on urban remote sensing and urban sustainability. He has published more than 80 papers in different academic journals, including more than 40 SCI papers, as well as 6 books as an associate editor. He also presided over more than 10 projects funded by agencies including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.