Dr. SUN Zhangyu Joe 孫章宇
Postdoctoral Fellow (Honorary)
Supervisor: Prof. LIU Lin
Room 308, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building
Education
| 2021 - 2025 | Ph.D. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2018 - 2021 | M.Sc. Geodesy and Geomatics | Wuhan University |
| 2019 - 2020 | M.Sc. Earth Oriented Space Science and Technology | Technical University of Munich |
| 2014 - 2018 | B.Sc. Navigation Engineering | Wuhan University |
Academic Employments
| 2025 - present | Postdoctoral Fellow (Honorary), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Research Fields and Current Research Interests
- Cryosphere remote sensing
- Rock glacier
- Artificial intelligence in geoscience applications
Representative Publications
| 2025 | Zhangyu Sun, Lin Liu, Chengyan Fan, Yan Hu, Francesca Baldacchino, Atanu Bhattacharya, Ella Wood, and Tobias Bolch (2025). Unveiling large-scale velocity characteristics of rock glaciers in the Tibet-Pamir-Karakoram region using InSAR. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 142, 104733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104733. |
| 2024 | Zhangyu Sun, Yan Hu, Adina Racoviteanu, Lin Liu, Stephan Harrison, Xiaowen Wang, Jiaxin Cai, Xin Guo, Yujun He, and Hailun Yuan (2024). TPRoGI: A comprehensive rock glacier inventory for the Tibetan Plateau using deep learning. Earth System Science Data, 16(12), 5703–5721. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5703-2024. |
Honours and Awards
| 2023 | Ernst Mach Grant, weltweit, Austria |
| 2021 | Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Hong Kong |







