主持过上海市浦江人才计划（A类）、国家自然科学基金面上项目及优秀青年科学基金、以及科技部973计划课题等一系列项目。

发表文章100余篇，详见 Jun Xu - INSPIRE (inspirehep.net)

代表性文章：

1) Transport approaches for the description of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisionsJ. Xu, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 106, 312 (2019)2) Nucleon effective masses in neutron-rich matter

B.A. Li, B.J. Cai, L.W. Chen, and J. Xu, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 99, 29 (2018)

3) Dynamical effects of spin-dependent interactions in low- and intermediate-energyheavy-ion reactions

J. Xu, B.A. Li, W.Q. Shen, and Y. Xia, Frontiers of Physics 10, 102501 (2015) (封面文章)

4）Elliptic flow splitting as a probe of the QCD phase structure at finite baryon chemical potential

J. Xu, T. Song, C.M. Ko, and F. Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 012301 (2014) (作为重大突破入选中科院2014年News Letter)

5）Nuclear constraints on non-Newtonian gravity at femtometer scale

J. Xu, B.A. Li, L.W. Chen, and H. Zheng, J. Phys. G 40, 035107 (2013) (当期highlight)

6）Nuclear constraints on properties of neutron star crustsJ. Xu, L.W. Chen, B.A. Li, and H.R. Ma, Astrophys. J. 697, 1549 (2009) (入选2009年中国百篇最具影响国际学术论文)