Journal of Optics期刊公布2024年“青年领军人”获奖名单

Chao Qian

• Chao Qian received a PhD degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, in 2020. He was a visiting PhD student at California Institute of Technology from 2019 to 2020. In 2021, he joined the Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute as an assistant professor. Chao’s research interests are on metamaterials/metasurfaces, electromagnetic scattering, inverse design, and deep learning. He has published more than 50 papers in high-profile journals, including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, etc. He is included in the 2023 Stanford University’s World Top 2% Scientists.
• Spatial multiplexing encryption with cascaded metasurfaces
• Zhixiang Fan et al 2023 J. Opt. 25 125105 

Lujun Huang

• Lujun Huang is currently a Professor at East China Normal University. He received the BS in physics from East China Normal University (China) in 2008 and Ph.D. in material science and engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) in 2017. He worked as a Research Associate at University of New South Wales Canberra as from July 2018 to Nov 2021. He joined school of physics and electronic sciences at East China Normal University in 2022 as a junior professor. His current research interests focus on resonant nanophotonics. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal papers.
• Revisiting anapoles in a single high-index dielectric structure
• Longxiao Wang and Lujun Huang 2024 J. Opt. 26 045001 

Nicolo Maccaferri

• Nicolo Maccaferri is tenure track assistant professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the Department of Physics of Umeå University (Sweden). He got his PhD in Physics in 2016 from the University of the Basque Country. His research focuses on exploring the fundamental and applied aspects of light-matter interactions in nano- and meta-materials for opto-electronics, photochemistry and biotechnology, using frequency- and time-resolved optical spectroscopies, finite-element computational methods and bottom-up/top-down nanofabrication techniques. In 2023, he was appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellow by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
• Vortex plate retarder-based approach for the generation of sub-20 fs light pulses carrying orbital angular momentum
• Tlek Tapani et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 045502 

You Zhou

• Dr. You Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Optical Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He earned his PhD from Vanderbilt University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Zhou has also conducted research at the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY and KLA Corporation. His research interests focus on developing advanced optical materials and nanotechnology for exploring fundamental light-matter interactions and various photonic applications. Dr. Zhou received the Rising Star of Light in 2023 from Light: Science & Applications and various other awards.
• Inverse-designed metasurfaces with facile fabrication parameters
• You Zhou et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 055101 

Kirill Koshelev

• Dr Kirill Koshelev is an early-career researcher working on the theoretical and numerical models for a broad range of cross-field nanophotonic applications. In 2022, Dr Koshelev received a PhD in Physics from Australian National University, where he currently holds Research Fellow position. Dr Koshelev received awards from SPIE and IEEE optical societies. His PhD thesis was recognized with Bragg Gold Medal 2023 as the best thesis in physics in Australia. He is annually included in top 2% most cited researchers in the world by Stanford University since 2021. His current h-factor is 29 and publications received more than 7000 citations.
• Scattering matrix for chiral harmonic generation and frequency mixing in nonlinear metasurfaces
• Kirill Koshelev et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 055003 

Yueqiang Hu

• Yueqiang Hu is an Associate Professor at Hunan University. Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2018. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany. He has published extensively in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, and Nano Letters, with over 40 patents to his name. Dr. Hu’s current research interests focus on the design, fabrication, and applications of micro-nano optical structures. He serves as a Young Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing and Infrared and Laser Engineering.
• Large-aperture imaging system based on 100 mm all-Si metalens in long-wave infrared
• Aoling Li et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 065005 

Chao He

• Dr. Chao He is a Lecturer, Principal Investigator, and doctoral supervisor at the University of Oxford. He completed his DPhil degree in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 2018-2020. He runs the Vectorial Optics and Photonics Group, which focuses on optical techniques for vectorial beam manipulation, including structured light/matter, adaptive optics, and polarization sensing. He has published over 80 scientific papers, and serves as an Editorial Board member of Journal of Optics, Light: Advanced Manufacturing; as Guest Editor-in-Chief of Light: Science & Applications. He independently leads several research grants, whose overall value exceeds £3 million.
• Vectorial adaptive optics for advanced imaging systems
• Yifei Ma et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 065402 

Lei Xu

• Lei Xu is a senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Department of Engineering in School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University. He obtained his PhD in optics from Nankai University in 2014, followed by postdocs at Nankai University, Australian National University, and University of New South Wales, Canberra. His research focuses on investigating light-matter interactions using resonant meta-structures, specifically manipulating electromagnetic fields at subwavelength scales through optically induced electric and magnetic multipolar resonances, with a specific focus on three primary directions: Nonlinear optics, Bio-photonics and Tuneable and reconfigurable Meta-devices.
• Infrared imaging with nonlinear silicon resonator governed by high-Q quasi-BIC states
• Gabriel Sanderson et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 065505 

Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo

• Dr. Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo is a lecturer at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, investigating the use of structured light in classical and quantum optics. Since her undergrad in Physics, she has been working in optics, holding a Master’s in Optics from INAOE (Mexico), and a PhD in Photonics from ICFO (Spain). She further specialized in structured light during her postdoctoral fellowships at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Colgate University (USA). She has delved into various fields, including holography, plasmonics, optical trapping, optical metrology, and imaging. Valeria’s current interests are polarization optics and quantum imaging.
• On-axis complex-amplitude modulation for the generation of super-stable vector modes
• Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 065606 

Ognjen Ilic

• Ognjen Ilic is a Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, USA, with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering and in Physics. His work focuses on understanding and harnessing light-matter interactions in nanophotonic systems, and he completed his Ph.D. in physics at MIT and was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech. His research has been published in topical journals (e.g., Nat. Photon., Nat. Materials) and interdisciplinary journals (Nat. Nano, Science Advances), recognized by 5 issued US patents, and featured in outlets including The Economist, Science/AAAS, NPR Science Friday (radio), BBC News, Sciences et Avenir (in French), Donga Science (in Korean). He received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award, the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (University of Minnesota’s leading award for junior faculty), and the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin Prize for excellence in research and commitment to scientific communication and outreach. Ilic serves as Associate Editor for Optics Express.
• Adaptive multi-spectral mimicking with 2D-material nanoresonator networks
• Yujie Luo et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 075001 

Lingyu Ai

• Lingyu Ai, Associate Professor of Jiangnan University, graduated from the Holodigilog Human Media Research Center of Kwangwoon University, Korea, with a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Professor Eun-Soo Kim, winner of the Korean Presidential Award. She received the SID Show Future Star Youth Leadership title, long-term commitment to large-scale naked-eye 3D display, 3D imaging system for chip detection and biomedicine, positioning and posture detection for AR/VR, circuit miniaturization, content generation, etc., the results can be displayed, can be landed, and widely praised by the business community.
• Generating real-scene hologram through light field imaging and deep learning
• Rui Wang et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 075706 

Georgia Papadakis

• Georgia received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2018, where she worked on metamaterials and low-dimensional materials. She conducted her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University, where she worked on radiative heat transfer for energy applications. In 2021, Georgia joined the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) as a group leader. Her research focuses on harnessing infrared-frequency thermal radiation for heat-to-electricity energy conversion and temperature regulation, lighting, and sensing. Georgia is the recipient of awards including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Tomkat Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainable Energy at Stanford University, the la Caixa Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• Hot-carrier thermophotovoltaic systems
• Kartika N Nimje et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 075902 

Elena Piceno

• Dr Elena Piceno received her PhD in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico in 2021. During her studies, she completed a short stay at Università degli Studi di Milano. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C. There, her research focuses on the manipulation of the direction of quantum steering through its characterisation with new generalised measures. Her research interests lie in the field of quantum optics and quantum information, particularly in quantum entanglement, hybrid entanglement, and entropic relations. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII-Candidate) in Mexico.
• A generalised entropic measure of steering using Tsallis entropies and the relationship with existent steering criteria
• A Elena Piceno-Martínez et al 2024 J. Opt. 26 105702 

Alfonso Jaimes Nájera

• Alfonso Jaimes Nájera is an assistant professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He received his PhD in Physics from Cinvestav, Mexico, in 2017 and specialized in optics during his postdoctoral fellowship at INAOE. His research focuses on applying Mathematical Physics to Optics, mainly in studying structured light and modeling the eye’s crystalline lens. Recently, the prestigious magazine Optics and Photonics News selected one of his research articles, which introduces a novel single-function model of the human lens, as one of the thirty most outstanding optics articles in 2020.
• Dihedral beams
• Alfonso Jaimes Nájera et al 2025 J. Opt. 27 015604

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