Personal Profile
Professor and Chief Forensic Physician, Doctor of Medicine, Doctoral Supervisor, and Postdoctoral Collaborative Professor. Distinguished Scholar of Sun Yat-sen University. Currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, the Director of the Forensic Physical Evidence Teaching and Research Section, the Deputy Director of the Sun Yat-sen University Forensic Identification Center, and the Deputy Director of the Guangdong Forensic Medicine Translational Engineering Technology Research Center. His main research direction is the basic and applied research on forensic physical evidence identification. He has long been engaged in research and translational applications on the traceability of biological samples and precise identity recognition, and has achieved a series of research results in the identification of complex kinship relationships and molecular identification of human characteristics.

Educational Experience

• 2001/9 - 2004/6: Doctoral Student, Sun Yat-sen University
• 1996/9 - 1999/6: Master's Student, Sun Yat-sen University
• 1991/9 - 1996/6: Bachelor's Degree, Zhongshan Medical University

Work Experience

• 2013/1 - Present: Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
• 2006/1 - 2012/12: Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
• 2006/3 - 2007/3: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Denver, USA
• 2002/1 - 2005/12: Lecturer, Department of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
• 1999/7 - 2001/12: Assistant, Department of Forensic Medicine, Basic Medical College, Zhongshan Medical University

Social and Academic Affiliations

• Member of the International Society of Forensic Genetics
• Vice Chairman of the Forensic Physical Evidence Committee of the Chinese Forensic Medicine Association
• Expert in the Judicial Appraisal Expert Database of the Ministry of Justice
• Reviewer for National Laboratory Accreditation and Accreditation Reviewer of China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) for Laboratories/Inspection Bodies
• Reviewer for Judicial Competency Verification of the Ministry of Justice
• Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Forensic Medicine
• Director of the Forensic Physical Evidence Identification Committee of the Guangdong Judicial Appraisal Association
• Vice Chairman of the Forensic Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Precision Medicine Application Society
• President of the Guangzhou Judicial Appraisal Association

Awards and Honors

• Advanced Individual in National Public Legal Service Work (2023)
• Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2002)
• First Prize of the Ministry of Public Security Science and Technology Award (2002)
• Second Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2006)
• First Prize of the Guangzhou Science and Technology Progress Award (2005)
• Second Prize of the Sun Yat-sen University Graduate Education Teaching Achievement Award (2023)
• First Prize of the Tenth Teaching Achievement Award of Sun Yat-sen University (2021)
• First Prize of the Ninth Teaching Achievement Award of Sun Yat-sen University (2019)

Representative Textbooks and Monographs

• Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Forensic Medicine (3rd Edition), a planned textbook of the Forensic Medicine Professional Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education
• Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Forensic Physical Evidence Experiment Guidance (2nd Edition), a national "13th Five-Year Plan" textbook published by People's Medical Publishing House
• Member of the Editorial Board of Forensic Physical Evidence (4th Edition), a national "13th Five-Year Plan" textbook published by People's Medical Publishing House
• Member of the Editorial Board of China Medical Education Question Bank (Clinical Medicine Question Bank) (Forensic Medicine) published by People's Medical Publishing House
• Member of the Editorial Board of Practical Forensic Medicine, a project funded by the National Science and Technology Academic Publication Fund
• Member of the Editorial Board of Introduction to Basic Medical Courses, a textbook for national higher medical colleges

Representative Research Projects

• National Natural Science Foundation Major Project (82293655)
• National Natural Science Foundation General Project (81971798)
• National Natural Science Foundation General Project (81671873)
• National Natural Science Foundation General Project (81273347)
• National Natural Science Foundation General Project (30400519)
• Key R & D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2017YFC0803502)
• General Project of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2019A15150)
• Scientific Research Startup Fund for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of the Ministry of Education (2008 - 890)
• Key Cultivation Project for Young Teachers of Basic Scientific Research Business Fees of Sun Yat-sen University (16ykzd08)

Representative Academic Papers

• Zhiyong Liu; Enlin Wu; Ran Li; Jiajun Liu; Yu Zang; Bin Cong; Riga Wu; Bo Xie; Hongyu Sun; Improved individual identification in DNA mixtures of unrelated or related contributors through massively parallel sequencing, Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2024, 72: 103078.  
• Zhiyong Liu; Jiajun Liu; Jiaojiao Geng; Enlin Wu; Jianzhang Zhu; Bin Cong; Riga Wu; Hongyu Sun; Metatranscriptomic characterization of six types of forensic samples and its potential application to body fluid/tissue identification: A pilot study, Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2024, 68: 102978.
• Qin Su; Chengliang Yang; Ling Chen; Yiqing She; Quyi Xu; Jian Zhao; Chao Liu; Hongyu Sun; Inference of drowning sites using bacterial composition and random forest algorithm, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023, 14: 1213271
• Ran Li; Nana Wang; Yu Zang; Jiajun Liu; Enlin Wu; Riga Wu; Hongyu Sun; Easykin: a flexible and user-friendly online tool for forensic kinship testing and missing person identification, International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023, 137: 1671-1681.
• Zhiyong Liu; Jingyi Yang; Nana Wang; Jiajun Liu; Jiaojiao Geng; Jianzhang Zhu; Bin Cong; Hongyu Sun; Riga Wu; Integrative lncRNA, circRNA, and mRNA analysis reveals expression profiles of six forensic body fluids/tissue, International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023, 138(3): 731-742.
• Mengge Wang; Shuhan Duan; Qiuxia Sun; Yan Liu; Renkuan Tang; Junbao Yang; Pengyu Chen; Chao Liu; Hongyu Sun; Guanglin He. The complex genetic landscape of southwestern Chinese populations contributed to their extensive ethnolinguistic diversity, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, 11: 1235655.
• Ran Li; Qiangwei Wang; Jingyi Yang; Jianzhang Zhu; Jiajun Liu; Riga Wu; Hongyu Sun. Comparison of three massively parallel sequencing platforms for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping in forensic genetics, International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023, 137: 1361-1372.
• Dan Peng; Jiaojiao Geng; Jingyi Yang; Jiajun Liu; Nana Wang; Riga Wu; Hongyu Sun. Whole Mitochondrial Genome Detection and Analysis of Two- to Four-Generation Maternal Pedigrees Using a New Massively Parallel Sequencing Panel, Genes, 2023, 14(4): 912.
• Zhiyong Liu; Jiajun Liu; Jiaojiao Geng; Enlin Wu; Jianzhang Zhu; Bin Cong; Riga Wu; Hongyu Sun. Metatranscriptomic characterization of six types of forensic samples and its potential application to body fluid/tissue identiffcation: A pilot study, Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2023, 68: 102978.

Email

sunhongyu2002@163.com；sunhy@mail.sysu.edu.cn