主要从事深海生态学、公海保护生态学和深海环境监测研究工作，多次担任大洋科考航次首席科学家，具有丰富的深远海调查研究经验。主持国家重点研发计划课题1项、子课题1项，国家自然科学基金项目2项、大洋专项5项，卫星海洋环境动力学国家重点实验室重点项目1项等。发表学术论文60多篇，其中第一作者或通讯作者SCI论文30篇，英文专著2章节。曾荣获教育部博士研究生学术新人奖（2012）等奖励。

主持的代表性科研项目情况：
1.国家重点研发计划“XXXX“项目“环境扰动监测及影响评估”课题（2022-2026）
2.上海交通大学“深蓝计划”基金面上项目“海洋生物发光对深海中微子望远镜运行的影响及应对策略”（2023-2024）
3.国家重点研发计划“多重环境胁迫下浮游生态系统临界点表征和量化“项目“多重环境胁迫下浮游生态系统临界点表征和量化”课题之子课题（2022-2025）
4.卫星海洋环境动力学国家重点实验室重点项目“大洋中尺度物理过程对浮游生态系统的影响：基于高分辨率的水下滑翔机观测”（2022-2023）
5.大洋专项“西太平洋公海保护区应对方案研究”（2020-2024）
6.国家自然科学基金面上项目 “热带和亚热带太平洋中层浮游动物与小型游泳动物的跨海盆尺度分布特征及其影响因素”（2021-2024）58万
7.大洋专项“西太“双十字”区域海洋生物多样性普查和保护价值评估”子课题“浮游生物、海鸟和深海垃圾调查”（2018-2020）70万
8.国家海洋局第二海洋研究所基本科研业务费专项“热带西太平洋与南海海盆区浮游动物垂直群落结构的比较研究”（2017-2018）18.5万
9.国家自然科学基金青年项目 “西太平洋深海海山对大、中型浮游动物群落结构的影响”（2015-2017）

学术兼职：
1.2020-今：国际标准化组织海洋技术分委会海洋环境影响评价工作组（ISO/TC 8/SC 13/WG 4），委员
2.2023-今：中国大洋矿产资源研究开发协会海底科学分会，副秘书长
3.2022-今：中国海洋工程咨询协会海洋生态环境监测分会，理事
4.2022-今：PeerJ期刊（SCI，IF=3.06）, Editor
5.2017-今：《海洋世界》，科学顾问
6.审稿人：Ecology Letters; ICES Journal of Marine Science; Progress in Oceanography; Communications Biology; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans; Marine Life Science & Technology; Marine Environmental Research; Estuaries and Coasts; Continental Shelf Research; Marine and Freshwater Research; Acta Oceanologica Sinica; PeerJ; Frontiers in Marine Science; Scientific Reports; 生物多样性；生态学报; 海洋湖沼学报; 海洋湖沼通报; 海洋通报等

1.Sun, D.*, Zhang, L. 2024. Where are the global ocean priority conservation areas under the most severe threat from microplastics? Marine Policy 168, 106326.
2.Jin, Q., Tang, J., Zhang, L.*, Yang, R., Hou, B., Gong, Q., Sun, D.* 2024. Bacterial community and antibiotic resistance genes assembly processes were shaped by different mechanisms in the deep-sea basins of the Western Pacific Ocean. Environmental Pollution 363, 125214.
3.Lu, X., Shen, C., Yang, C., Xu, W., Yang, J., Wang, C., Sun, D.* 2024. Megabenthic Diversity Patterns on a Seamount in the Philippine Sea: Implications for Conservation Planning on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. Ecology and Evolution 14, e70427.
4.Sun, D., Huang, X., Wang, C.* 2024. Summer monsoon promotes the energy transfer efficiency of the mesozooplankton community in a marginal sea. Marine Environmental Research 193, 106306.
5.Wang, Z., Fang, C., Yang, C., Zhang, G., Sun, D.* 2024. Latitudinal gradient and influencing factors of deep-sea particle export along the Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the Philippine Sea. Science of the Total Environment 906, 167460.
6.Feng, Y., Sun, D.*, Shao, Q., Fang, C., Wang, C.* 2023. COI metabarcoding better reveals the seasonal variations in the zooplankton community in the western Pacific Warm Pool. Ecological Indicators 156, 111183.
7.Zhang, L., Zhang, L., Shi, Y., Yang, Z., Gong, Q., Sun, D.* 2023. PAHs in the monsoonal open ocean: homogeneous spatial pattern and wind-driven significant seasonal variations. Journal of Hazardous Materials 454, 131462.
8.Zhang, L., Zhang, L., Sun, D.* 2023. Considering zooplankton as a black box in determining PAH concentrations could result in misjudging their bioaccumulation. Environmental Pollution 316, 120672.
9.Shao, Q., Sun, D.*, Fang, C., Feng, Y., Wang, C. 2023. Microbial food webs share similar biogeographic patterns and driving mechanisms with depths in oligotrophic tropical western Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1098264.
10.Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Yu, J., Wu, Q.*, Sun, D.* 2023. Anticyclonic mesoscale eddy induces mesopelagic biomass hotspot in the oligotrophic ocean. Journal of Marine Systems 237, 103831.
11.Feng, Y., Sun, D.*, Shao, Q., Feng, Y., Wang, C.* 2022. Mesozooplankton biodiversity, vertical assemblages, and diel migration in the western tropical Pacific Ocean revealed by eDNA metabarcoding and morphological methods. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 1004410.
12.Tang, Q., Yang, J., Sun, D.* 2022. Functional diversity of copepod assemblages along a basin-scale latitudinal gradient in the North Pacific Ocean. Ecological Indicators 141, 109112.
13.Shao, Q., Sun, D.*, Fang, C., Feng, Y., Wang, C.* 2022. Biodiversity and Biogeography of Abundant and Rare Microbial Assemblages in the Western Subtropical Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 839562.
14.Song, Y., Wang, C., Sun, D.* 2022. Both dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll explain the large-scale longitudinal variation of deep scattering layers in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 782032.
15.Song, Y., Yang, J., Wang, C., Sun, D.* 2022. The spatial patterns and environmental associations of deep scattering layers in the northwestern subtropical Pacific Ocean. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 41(7), 1–14.
16.Sun, D., Chen, Y., Feng, Y., Liu, Z.*, Peng, X., Cai, Y., Yu, P. & Wang, C.* 2021. Seasonal variation in size diversity: Explaining the spatial mismatch between phytoplankton and mesozooplankton in fishing grounds of the East China Sea. Ecological Indicators 131, 108201.
17.Chen, Y., Lin, S., Wang, C., Yang, J. & Sun, D.* 2020. Response of size and trophic structure of zooplankton community to marine environmental conditions in the Northern South China Sea in winter. Journal of Plankton Research 42(3), 378-393.
18.Sun, D., Zhang, D., Zhang, R. & Wang, C.* 2019. Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 38(6), 32-45.
19.Sun, D. & Wang, C.* 2017. Latitudinal distribution of zooplankton communities in the Western Pacific along 160°E during summer 2014. Journal of Marine Systems 169, 52–60.
20.孙栋 & 王春生*. 2017. 深远海浮游动物生态学研究进展. 生态学报 37(10): 3219-3231.