Jun Huang is leading a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group in IET-3, FZ Julich, Germany, since May 2022. He is also affiliated with RWTH Aachen University as a Juniorprofessor.
He obtained his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2012 and 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Jianbo Zhang, respectively. From Oct. 2015 to May 2016, he was a visiting PhD 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. After a three-month visit to Jülich Research Centre, he joined Prof. Axel Gross’s research group at Ulm University as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2021, he had a four-month research stay at the Institute of Electrochemistry at Alicante University, hosted by Professors Victor Climent and Juan Feliu.
His team is developing density-potential functional theoretical methods for understanding nonequilibrium thermodynamics of reactive electrochemical double layers, especially with mesoscopic features such as supported nanoparticles, nanoconfinement, and roughness. The research received financial support from the Helmholtz Young Investigators award (05.2022-04.2017) and ERC Starting Grant (01.2025-12.2029).