Current      Director

Sun, 47, earned his PhD in marine ecology from IOCAS in 1994. e was a visiting scholar at Australian Antarctic Division for cooperative research in Antarctic krill biology from 1990 and 1992. Since 1998, he has served as vice director of IOCAS, taking charge of education school of the institute, research vessel fleet management, human resources management, marine ecology and environment science research activity coordination and ecological station administration. At present, his research interest is mainly in marine ecology, especially in the zooplankton population dynamics and Antarctic krill biology. He is also Chairman of the Marine Ecology Division under China Oceanology & Limnology Society, and of the Chinese National Implementation Committee for CoML (Census of Marine Life), and is involved in a number of professional organizations, such as Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), OBIS and the SCOR Technology Panel.