Hui SUN is an associate researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories (NAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Before that, she stayed at NAOC as a post-doc during the years of 2017-2021. She received her Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2017, under the supervisions of Professor Bing Zhang and Zhuo Li. She stayed as an exchange student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas during 2014-2015 and late 2016.

Her research focuses on the extragalactic high energy transients including gamma-ray burst, binary neutron star merger magnetar powered X-ray emissions, SN shock breakouts and tidal disruption events, etc. She is also a team member of Einstein Probe, which is an X-ray mission of CAS dedicated to time-domain high-energy astrophysics and launched on Jan. 9 2024.

1. Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a. Y. Liu, H. Sun, D. Xu et al. Nature Astronomy (accepted).

2. Magnetar emergence in a peculiar gamma-ray burst from a compact star merger. H. Sun, C.-W. Wang, J. Yang, B.-B. Zhang, S.-L. Xiong et al. National Science Review (accepted).

3. Triggering the Untriggered: The First Einstein Probe-detected Gamma-Ray Burst 240219A and Its Implications. Yi-Han Iris Yin, Binbin Zhang, Jun Yang et al. ApJL, 975, L27 (2024).

4. Einstein Probe discovery of EP240408a: a peculiar X-ray transient with an intermediate timescale Wenda Zhang, Weimin Yuan, Zhixing Ling, et al., SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 68, 1: 219511 (2025).

5. Luminosity Function and Event Rate Density of XMM-Newton-selected Supernova Shock Breakout Candidates. Sun, Hui; Liu, He-Yang; Pan, Hai-Wu et al. 2022, ApJ.

6. A Unified Binary Neutron Star Merger Magnetar Model for the Chandra X-Ray Transients CDF-S XT1 and XT2. Sun, Hui; Li, Ye; Zhang, Bin-Bin et al. 2019, ApJ.

7. X-Ray Counterpart of Gravitational Waves Due to Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Light Curves, Luminosity Function, and Event Rate Density. Sun, Hui; Zhang, Bing; Gao, He, 2017, ApJ.

8. Extragalactic High-energy Transients: Event Rate Densities and Luminosity Functions. Sun, Hui; Zhang, Bing; Li, Zhuo, 2015, ApJ.