Journal of Optics期刊公布2024年光学新星奖获奖名单

 

Guangwei Hu

Research field: Nanophotonics, Flat-optics

• Dr. Guangwei Hu has been the Nanyang Assistant Professor in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, since 2022. He graduated with BSc from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016 and PhD from National University of Singapore in 2020. He was the visiting scholar in City University of New York and UT Austin and did the postdoctoral in Stanford University. He has published more than 100 papers and received numerous notable awards. His research interests include nanophotonics, flat-optics for microscope, optical computations and information processing, 2D material optoelectronics, hyperbolic polaritonics, thermal photonics and others.

 

Rohit Chikkaraddy

Research Field: Nanophotonics

• Dr. Rohit Chikkaraddy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham since 2022, where he develops nanomaterials and devices for sensing and spectroscopy. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, exploring light-matter interactions in plasmonic nanocavities. He earned his PhD in Physics from Cambridge in 2018, receiving multiple scholarships and travel grants, including the Lindau Bayer Fellowship. Rohit began his academic journey in the UK in 2014 after completing his BS-MS at IISER Pune, India. His exceptional contributions as an early-career researcher were recognized with the 2024 IOP Henry Moseley Prize and Award.

 

Isaac Nape

Research Field: Structured Light

• Dr. Isaac Nape is a lecturer in classical and quantum photonics, specializing in communication, imaging, and computation using structured light. Based in the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Structured Light Lab, he has been recognized with prestigious accolades as an outstanding young researcher under 35 in South Africa by the South African Institute of Physics and Royal Society of South Africa. As an OPTICA Emerging Leader in Optics and South African Quantum Technology Initiative (SAQuTI) fellow, Dr. Nape is advancing Africa’s quantum future through impactful research, outreach, and international representation, contributing significantly to the global scientific community.

 

Yijie Shen

Research Field: Topological waves, Nanophotonics

• Yijie Shen is an Assistant Professor in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, since 2023. He was a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow in University of Southampton, UK. He received the Ph.D. degree in Tsinghua University, China, in 2019. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2015. He was a visiting researcher in University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, during 2019.

 

Han-Sen Zhong

Research field: Quantum optics

• Han-Sen Zhong is an Associate Researcher at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He earned his PhD in 2022 from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Zhong developed high-quality quantum entangled photon sources via spontaneous parametric down-conversion, achieving the first 12-photon entanglement experiment. He conducted groundbreaking experiments on high-dimensional quantum teleportation, overcoming the long-standing limitation to two-level systems. In the Gaussian Boson sampling experiment “Jiuzhang” 1.0 and 2.0, he demonstrated quantum computational advantage for the first time, highlighting the potential of photonic quantum computing in tackling certain complex computational problems.

 

Kayn Forbes

Research field: Nanophotonics, Structured light

• Kayn Forbes has been a Lecturer at UEA since September 2022. He was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Chemistry from 2019-2022 where he previously obtained his PhD in 2018 under the supervision of Professor David L. Andrews. His research interests broadly involve studying the interaction between light and matter using both quantum and classical methods. He leads the Light-Matter and NanoPhotonics Theory group at UEA. Specific topics currently being studied include the nano-optics of structured light and optical vortices, chirality, optical activity, and molecular photonics.

 

Son Tung Ha

Research field: Nanophotonics

• Dr. Son Tung Ha (Tony) received his Ph.D in Applied Physics from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2018. He is currently a Principal Investigator and Deputy Head of Advanced Optical Technologies Department at the Institute of Material Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore. He leads a research group called Novel Light Source (NLS), focusing on metamaterials and their applications in light-emitting diodes and nanolasers for advanced displays (AR/VR). His group is also interested in strongly coupled light-matter interactions such as exciton-polariton systems and optical manipulations of single photon emitters for quantum optics.

 

Chao He

Research field: Vectorial Optics

• Chao He is a Lecturer/Principal Investigator at the University of Oxford. He runs the Vectorial Optics and Photonics Group, which focuses on optical techniques for vectorial beam manipulation, including structured light, structured matter, adaptive optics, and polarization sensing. He completed his DPhil degree in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in two years from 2018-2020. He has published over 90 scientific papers, including first- and corresponding-authored papers in Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, Elight, Optica, Advanced Photonics, etc. He independently led several research grants with a total value exceeding £3 million.

 

Angelos Xomalis

Research Field: Nanoscale spectroscopies

• Angelos joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as an Associate Professor of Nanophotonics in 2023. Prior to that he did his BA and MSc degrees at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete and obtained his PhD at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. Then he was Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Angelos serves as an Editorial Board Member of npj Nanophotonics part of Nature Portfolio and Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of APL Photonics.

 

Eva Pogna

Research field: Ultrafast spectroscopy, Nanophotonics

• Dr. Eva Pogna is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR) in Milan, Italy. She earned her PhD in Physics from Politecnico di Milano in 2017. Her research focuses on nanoscale light-matter interactions in low-dimensional materials (particularly 2D crystals and van der Waals materials) for nano optoelectronics and photonics using ultrafast and nonlinear spectroscopies and near-field imaging techniques. In 2024, she received an ERC Starting Grant to study thermal transport engineering via radiative heat emission for advanced temperature management and energy harvesting.

 

Qing Zhang

Research field: Nanophotonics, Polaritonics

• Qing Zhang is an associate professor at the Department of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) Chengdu, China. He received his M.S. (2013) degree in optics from UESTC, and obtained his Ph.D. (2019) degree in optical engineering from China Academy of Engineering Physics, China. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at National University of Singapore (2019 to 2021). His research interests focus on nanophotonics, near-field optics, and light-matter interactions in 2D materials. To date, he authored more than 60 publications in journals, such as Nature and Science Advances, with >2500 citations and h-index=25.

 

Sweta Rani

Research field: Two-photon lithography, 3D/4D printing

• Dr. Sweta Rani is a distinguished researcher with expertise spanning nanophotonics, bio-photonics, nonlinear optics, ultrafast lasers and monocrystalline silicon ingot growth process. With over six years of interdisciplinary research experience, she has contributed to innovations, including 4D-printed optical nanosensors and ECM-free biocompatible scaffolds. Currently, she leads technological advancements in monocrystalline silicon ingot growth at Adani Solar, driving renewable energy solutions. A recipient of multiple prestigious awards, Dr. Rani holds a PhD from IIT Bombay-Monash Research Academy and has authored several high-impact publications, advancing the frontiers of optics and materials science.

 

Mauro Brotons-Gisbert

Research field: Two-dimensional materials

• Mauro Brotons-Gisbert is a senior research fellow at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, where he leads a group within the Quantum Photonics Laboratory that aims to develop new quantum materials to investigate the Hubbard model of strongly correlated particles. He graduated in physics, completed an MSc degree in advanced physics and obtained a PhD degree in physics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 2011, 2012, and 2017, respectively. His postdoctoral research focused on the quantum optics and optical spectroscopy of quantum systems in two-dimensional van der Waals semiconductors. In 2021, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

 

Jingyi Tian

Research field: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials

• Jingyi Tian received her Bachelor’s and Honors Degree from Zhejiang University in 2014, followed by a PhD in Optical Engineering in 2019. Later, she joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as a research fellow. Since 2024, she has been an Assistant Professor at Westlake University. Her doctoral thesis was nominated for Outstanding Doctor Dissertations by Chinese Optical Society and Zhejiang University. She received Women in Engineering, Science and Technology Conference Grant from NTU in 2020. In 2024, she was recognized by Stanford University and Elsevier as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. Her research interests include metamaterials and nanophotonics.

 

Qian Cao

Research field: Spatiotemporal optics, Laser physics

• Dr. Qian Cao received his PhD degree in physics from Universität Hamburg (UHH) in 2020. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering (OECE) at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST). Dr. Cao specializes in spatiotemporal optics and laser physics. He has published more than 20 papers in scientific journals such as Nature Photonics (2), Nature Communications (2), and Advanced Photonics (1). He aims to create new forms of light in the spatiotemporal domain and to use the light for advancing optics, photonics, and physics study.

 

Julianna Winnik

Research field: Holography

• Dr. Julianna Winnik (née Kostencka), an assistant professor at Warsaw University of Technology, specializes in holography with a focus on holotomography and machine learning applications. Her research has led to algorithms that improve holotomography’s accuracy and has been integral to several National Science Centre Poland (NCN) projects, including one she led to enhance holotomography resolution. Her achievements have earned her prestigious awards, including the Polish Ministerial Scholarship for outstanding young researchers and two Foundation for Polish Science’s START scholarships. Dr. Winnik balances her scientific career with being a dedicated mother to her two daughters, Alina and Lidia.

 

Christian Brahms

Research Field: Ultrafast photonics

• Christian Brahms is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He develops new laser light sources with extreme spectral and temporal properties, such as sub-cycle field transients, tunable few-femtosecond pulses from the vacuum UV to the near IR, and ultrabroadband supercontinua, and applies these new tools in both ultrafast science and technology. Christian received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2018 and subsequently worked as a Research Associate with John Travers in the Laboratory of Ultrafast Physics and Optics. He was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2022 and an ERC Starting Grant in 2024.

 

Balázs Major

Research field: Attosecond sciences

• Balázs Major is senior research fellow, group leader at the ELI (ERIC) ALPS Facility and assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His main scientific achievements include contributions to the development of unique attosecond sources and to understanding of macroscopic processes in high-harmonic generation. He has been program subcommittee member of major optical conferences like CLEO and CLEO-Europe, and has given invited talks at multiple international meetings. He is spending his last year as chair of Optica’s Short Wavelength Sources and Attosecond/High Field Physics Technical Group, with the focus on connecting members of the attosecond and high-field physics communities.

 

Yunfeng Nie

Research field: Computational optics

• Yunfeng Nie is a Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, specializing in freeform optics and computational imaging. Active in optics since 2012, her early work on hyperspectral imagers at CAS laid the groundwork for her current AI-driven, physics-aware optical design approaches. She completed her PhD in 2018 under the EU Marie Curie Fellowship with a dissertation on freeform optics. She has since contributed to numerous research projects in ultrashort projection, biomedical optics and collaborated internationally in Spain, Germany, Finland, etc. Dr. Nie has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers and presented more than 10 talks at international conferences.

期刊介绍

Journal of Optics

• 2023年影响因子：2.0  Citescore: 4.5
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