1998:  PhD, Quaternary Geology, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academic of Sciences 

Cenozoic geology and environment

1985-07-1990-10: State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academic of Sciences
2000-06-2005-02: Institute of South China Sea, Chinese Academic of Sciences
2005-03 - present:  Associate Professor, Key laboratory of west China’s Environmental System (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University.

1.Quaternary Geology
2.Cenozoic Geology
3.Planet science and future Earth 

Cenozoic Geology and environment

1.Sun Donghuai, John Shaw, An Zhisheng and Tim Rolph, 1993，Matuyama/Brunhes (M/B) transition recorded in Chinese loess, Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoeclectrisity, 45, 319-330.
2.Sun Donghuai, Wu Xihao and Liu Tungsheng, 1996, Evolution of the summer monsoon regime over the loess plateau of the last 150ka. Science in China (D), 39, 503-511.
3.Sun Donghuai, Zhou Jie, Jiang Fuchu and Porter SC, 1996, Preliminary study on the summer monsoon climate of Chinese loess plateau during the last interglacial period. Chinese Science Bulletin, 41,321-325.
4.Sun Donghuai, Liu Tungsheng, Chen Minyang and An Zhisheng, 1997, Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoclimate of Red Clay sequences from Chinese loess Plateau. Science in China(D), 40,337-343.
5.Sun Donghuai, John Shaw, An Zhisheng, Cheng Minyang and Yue Leping, 1998，Magnetostratigraphy and paleoclimatic interpretation of a continuous 7.2Ma Late Cenozoic eolian sediments from the Chinese Loess Plateau, Geophysical Research Letter, 25(1), 85-88.
6.Sun Donghuai, An Zhisheng, J. Shaw J. Bloemendal and Sun Youbin, 1998，Magnetostratigraphy and Palaeoclimatic significance of Late Tertiary Aeolian Sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geophysical Journal International, 134,207-212.
7.Sun Donghuai Liu Yu and Tan Min, Digital image analysis of palaeoenvironmental records and applications. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2002, 47 (23), 1957-1963.
8.Donghuai Sun，Fahu Chen, Jan Bloemendal, and Su Ruixian, Seasonal variability of modern dust over the Loess Plateau of China, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 2003, (D21), 4665, doi:10. 1029/2003JD003382, 1-10.
9.SUN Donghuai,  AN Zhisheng，Ruixia Su, Huayu Lu, Youbin Sun, Eolian sedimentary records for the evolution of monsoon and westerly circulations of northern China in the last 2.6 Ma Science in China Ser. D 2003, 46 (10).
10.SUN Donghuai  Bloemendal J, Rea D K, Vandenberghe J., Jiang F, Zhisheng An, Ruixia, Su, Grain-size distribution function of polymodal sediments in hydraulic and Aeolian environments, and numerical partitioning of the sedimentary components. Sedimentary Geology, 2002, 152/3-4, 263-277.
11.Sun Donghuai An Zhisheng et al, Mathematical approach to sedimentary component partitioning of polymodal sediments and its applications。 Progress in Nature Science, 2001, 11(5)，374-382.
12.Sun Donghuai, Monsoon and westerly circulation changes recorded in the Late Cenozoic aeolian sequences of Northern China, Global and Planetary Change, 2004, 41/1, 63-80.
13.SUN Donghuai, Jan Bloemendal, David K. Rea, An Zhisheng, Jef Vandenberghe, Lu Huayu, Su Ruixia, Liu Tungsheng. Bimodal grain-size distribution of Chinese loess, and its palaeoclimatic implications. 2004, Catena, 55( 3), 325-340.
14.Sun Donghuai, Michael K. Gagan, Hai Cheng, Heather Scott-Gagan, Carolyn A. Dykoski, R. Lawrence Edwards, Ruixia Su, Seasonal and interannual variability of the Mid-Holocene East Asian monsoon in coral d18O records from the South China Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 237 (2005) 69- 84.
15.Donghuai Sun, Ruixia Su, Jan Bloemendal, Huayu Lu, 2008. Grain-size and accumulation rate records from Late Cenozoic aeolian sequences in northern China: Implications for variations in the East Asian winter monsoon and westerly atmospheric circulation Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 264. 39–53.
16.Donghuai Sun, Ruixia Su, Ted A. McConnaughey, Jan Bloemendal. Variability of skeletal growth and δ13C in massive corals from the South China Sea: Effects of photosynthesis, respiration and human activities. Chemical Geology, 2008，255(3-4):414-425.
17.Donghuai Sun, Jan Bloemendalb , Zhiyu Yi, Yanhu Zhu, Xin Wang, Yuebao Zhang, Zaijun Li, Fei Wang, Fei Han and Yan Zhang. Palaeomagnetic and palaeoenvironmental study of two parallel sections of late Cenozoic strata in the central Taklimakan Desert: Implications for the desertification of the Tarim Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology，2011, 300:1-10.
18.Donghuai Sun, Ruixia Su, Zaijun Li, Huayu Lu. 2011. The ultrafine component in Chinese loess and its variation over the past 7.6 Ma: implications for the history of pedogenesis. Sedimentology, 58, 916-935.
19.Sun Donghuai, Zhang Yuebao, Han Fei, Zhang Yan, Yi Zhiyu, Li Zaijun, Wang Fei, Wu Sheng, Li Baofeng. 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records for a Late Cenozoic sedimentary sequence from Lanzhou, Northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change, 76, 106-116.
20.Zaijun Li, Donghuai Sun, Fahu Chen et al, Chronology and paleoenvironmental records of a drill core in the central Tengger Desert of China. 2014, Quaternary Science Reviews,85, 85-98, DOI | 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.003,
21.FeiWang, DonghuaiSun, FahuChen, Jan Bloemendal, FengGuo, ZaijunLi, YuebaoZhang, BaofengLi, XinWang, Formation and evolution of the Badain Jaran Desert, North China, as revealed by a drill core from the desert centre and by geological survey. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 426, 2015, 139-158
22.YuebaoZhang, DonghuaiSun, ZaijunLi, FeiWang, XinWang, BaofengLi, FengGuo, ShengWu, Cenozoic record of aeolian sediment accumulation and aridification from Lanzhou, China, driven by Tibetan Plateau uplift and global climate. Global and Planetary Change, 120, 2014, 1-15
23.BaofengLi, DonghuaiSun, WeihongXu, FeiWanga, BaiqingLiang, ZhiweiMa, XinWang, ZaijunLi, FahuChena, Paleomagnetic chronology and paleoenvironmental records from drill cores from the Hetao Basin and their implications for the formation of the Hobq Desert and the Yellow River, Quaternary Science Reviews, 156, 2017, 69-89