Jun Huang is leading a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group in IET-3, FZ Julich, Germany, since May 2022. He also teaches as a Juniorprofessor at RWTH Aachen University.
He obtained his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Automotive Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2012 and 2017, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Jianbo Zhang. From Oct. 2015 to May 2016, he was a visiting Ph.D. student in Prof. Michael Eikerling’s research group at Simon Fraser University. From July 2017 to November 2019, he was an associate professor at Central South University, China. He moved to Germany in 2020. After an initial three-month visit at FZ Julich, he worked as a Humboldt fellow with Prof. Axel Groß at Ulm University until he took his current position. During the Humboldt fellowship, he had a four-month research stay at the Institute of Electrochemistry at Alicante University (Host: Professors Juan Feliu and Victor Climent) in 2021.
His team works mainly on developing density-potential functional theoretical methods for understanding thermodynamics and nonequilibrium dynamics of reactive electrochemical double layers, especially on the mesoscale.
His research received financial support from the Helmholtz Young Investigators award (05.2022-04.2017) and ERC Starting Grant (01.2025-12.2029).