He is a founding
faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy
adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a
former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.
Coauthors included Xuanhe Zhao, a
former Ph.D. student and postdoc at SEAS, now a
faculty member at Duke University; Widusha R. K. Illeperuma, a graduate student at SEAS; Ovijit Chaudhuri, a postdoc in Mooney's lab; and Kyu Hwan Oh, Sun's
former adviser and a
faculty member at Seoul National University in Korea.