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About Dr. Hao Sun

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Selected Awards/Recognitions
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2022 ACS-PRF Undergraduate New Investigator

2021 ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar
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2019 Northwestern University Postdoc Professional Development Travel Award

2018-2019 Publons Global Peer Review Award For Chemistry

2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Finance Students Abroad
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2015 Eastman Chemical Company Fellowship

2015 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Travel Award, University of Florida
Professional Membership

Member, American Chemical Society

Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Academic Service

Grant Reviewer: ACS Petroleum Research Fund
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Journal Reviewers: Advanced Science (Wiley), Chemical Communications (RSC), ACS Macro Letters,  Polymer Chemistry (RSC), CCS Chemistry, Journal of Polymer Science (Wiley), Polymer Degradation and Stability, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering (RSC),  ACS Omega, ACS Symposium Series, RSC Advances, MRS Advances,, Designed Monomers and Polymers, Polymer Science (Springer), Macromolecular Research, Pharmaceutics, Polymers, Biomolecules, Materials, Molecules, Nanomaterials, Processes,   International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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Guest Editors: Advances in Polymer Technology (Wiley)
Biography

Dr. Hao Sun is an organic and polymer chemist. He conducted his PhD research on stimuli-responsive polymers with Prof. Brent Sumerlin at University of Florida, and obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry in August 2017. ​From 2017 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Nathan Giannesschi at Northwestern University. He is currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at University of New Haven.
Professional Experience

2021/8- current  Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Director of Chemistry Graduate Program
Department of Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
​Tagliatela College of Engineering
University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA

2017/9 - 2021/7 Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA


Education
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2012/8 - 2017/8 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Ph.D. in Chemistry

​2011/8-2012/8 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

2009/9-2011/6 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
M.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry & Physics

2005/9-2009/6 Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry
Teaching
2022 Fall - University of New Haven
CHEM 2202 Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 4501 Advanced Organic Chemistry
CHEM 6698 Thesis I
CHEM 6685 Graduate Research Project
CHEM 6688 Graduate Internship
CHEM 6695 Independent Study I

2022 Spring - University of New Haven
CHEM 2202 Organic Chemistry II
                       
2021 Fall - University of New Haven
CHEM 2201 Organic Chemistry I 
CHEM 4501 Advanced Organic Chemistry                          
2019-2020 Fall - Northwestern University
BME 444-0-01 Organic Nanomaterials (Guest Lecturer)

2017 Spring - University of Florida
CHM2211L Organic Chemistry Lab
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2012-2016 - University of Florida
CHM2045L and CHM2046L General Chemistry Lab
Science Outreach

2021-2022 Mentor for Amity public school Science Research Program 
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​2018 Summer Mentor of REU students

2016 Summer Mentor of REU students
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