Sun, Laixiang

Bio

Laixiang Sun is a Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD. He was previously a Chair Professor and the Head of Department at Department of Financial and Management Studies in SOAS University of London, and Senior Economist at International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. He was awarded the title “Fellow (Academician) of the Academy of Social Sciences” (www.acss.org.uk) in February 2010.  He has produced more than 220 research publications in regional sciences and regional economics, environmental sciences and management, business and management studies, integrated modelling, and ecological economics. He has been a principal investigator or leading scientist in more than 30 research projects sponsored by the European Commission; NASA in the USA; British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, ESRC, EPSRC, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), and Met Office in the UK; Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Sciences Foundation, and Ministry of Education in China. He has taught more than 20 different courses in universities in China, the Netherlands, Finland, the UK, and the USA spanning from systems analysis, economics, econometrics, calculus to corporate governance, international business studies, and urban geography. The 2022 top scientists ranking for Economics and Finance published by Research.com ranked him 1,163 worldwide, 720 in the United States.