德国洪堡学者，中科院人才计划入选者，博士生导师。近年围绕城市土壤生物多样性，系统揭示了城市土壤生物群落空间分布格局及驱动机制，并阐明了动物宿主与其寄生虫和病原菌的互作机制及其对人类健康的风险。近年在Nature Cities、PNAS、Microbiome、Glob Change Biol、Soil Biol Biochem、Environ Sci Technol等期刊发表论文120余篇、专著1部。主持国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目、科技部重点研发计划课题等十余项。担任多个国内外土壤学领域期刊编委。获第八届中国土壤学会优秀青年学者奖等。
城市土壤动物多样性，土壤动物生态功能，土壤生物多样性与人类健康
1. Xin Sun*, Jake M. Robinson*, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Anton Potapov, Haifeng Yao, Biao Zhu, Alexei V. Tiunov, Linxiu Zhang, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Scott X. Chang, Martin F. Breed, Nico Eisenhauer, Stefan Scheu, Zhipeng Li*, Yong-Guan Zhu. Unforeseen high continental-scale soil microbiome homogenisation in urban greenspaces. Nature Cities, 2025, 10.1038/s44284-025-00294-y.
2. Xin Sun*, Craig Liddicoat, Alexei Tiunov, Bin Wang, Yiyue Zhang, Changyi Lu, Zhipeng Li, Stefan Scheu, Martin F. Breed*, Stefan Geisen*, Yong-Guan Zhu. Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities. npj Urban Sustainability, 2023, 3: 5.
3. Zhipeng Li, Xin Sun*, Haifeng Yao, Huayuan Shangguan, Hangwei Hu, Zhiyao Tang, Gang Li, Weixin Zhang, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Stefan Schu, Yong-Guan Zhu. Human land use promotes range expansion of soil protists from temperate to subtropical regions in China. PNAS, 2025, 122(30): e2413220122.
4. Yiyue Zhang, Hong-Zhe Li, Martin Breed, Zhonghui Tang, Li Cui, Yong-Guan Zhu, Xin Sun*. Soil warming increases the active antibiotic resistome in the gut of invasive giant African snails, Microbiome, 2025, 13(1): 42.
5. Zhi-Peng Li, Hua-Yuan Shangguan, Haifeng Yao, Xiao-Ru Yang, Yuri Mazei, Biao Zhu, Stefan Scheu, Xin Sun*. Colonization ability and uniformity of resources and environmental factors determine biological homogenization of soil protists in human land-use systems, Global Change Biology, 2024, 30(7): e17411.
6. Xin Gong, Zhihong Qiao, Haifeng Yao, Dan Zhao, Nico Eisenhauer, Stefan Scheu, Chao Liang, Manqiang Liu, Yong-Guan Zhu, Xin Sun*. Urbanization simplifies soil nematode communities and coincides with decreased ecosystem stability. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024, 190: 109297.
7. Bin Wang, Saichao Zhang, Zhihong Qiao, Qibao Yan, Stefan Scheu, Xin Sun*. Small urban fragments maintain complex food webs of litter-dwelling arthropods in a subtropical city in China. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023, 185: 109150.
8. Yiyue Zhang, Jian-Qiang Su, Hu Liao, Martin F. Breed, Haifeng Yao, Huayuan Shangguan, Hong-Zhe Li, Xin Sun*, Yong-Guan Zhu. Increasing antimicrobial resistance and potential human bacterial pathogens in an invasive land snail driven by urbanization, Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57: 7273-728412.
9. 孙新，谢致敬，乔志宏，高梅香，殷睿，常亮，吴东辉，刘满强，朱永官. 基于功能性状的土壤动物群落生态学研究进展. 应用生态学报, 2024, https://link.cnki.net/urlid/21.1253.Q.20240206.1058.002
10. 孙新, 李琪, 姚海凤, 刘满强, 吴东辉, 朱冬, 朱永官*. 土壤动物与土壤健康. 土壤学报, 2021, 58(5): 1073–1083.
2024/01-2028/12，国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目，城市土壤生物多样性对人畜致病菌的调控及其人类健康风险，主持
2023/11-2027/05，国家重点研发计划项目课题，城市生物多样性监测与声像联动智能装备研发，主持
2023/01-2025/12，中国科学院率先行动引才计划B类，主持
2023/01-2025/12，中国科学院国际伙伴计划未来伙伴网络专项，主持
2019/01-2023/12，科技部基础资源调查项目子课题，中国东部农区土壤跳虫多样性调查，主持
2018/01-2019/12，国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目，温带森林垂直自然带跳虫物种多样性空间分布格局研究：对比长白山区和锡霍特山区，主持
2016/01-2019/12，国家自然科学基金面上项目，长白山区棘跳多样性垂直分布格局及其形成机制，主持
2014/01-2016/12，国家自然科学基金青年项目，中国棘跳科系统分类研究（弹尾纲：原跳目），主持
