Professor Min Gu (2015), Australia
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Academician
Director of Centre for Micro-Photonics
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Tel: +61 392148776
Email: mgu@swin.edu.au
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/science-engineering-technology/staff-profiles/view.php?who=mgu
Professor Min Gu is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optical Engineering and the Institute of Physics (UK), Vice President of the International Commission for Optics, and President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences.
Professor Gu is a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC), a University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre of Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology. He was appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capacity) at Swinburne in 2009. His discipline, Physical Science, has received the highest rating of 5 in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings (ARC, 2011) and is a major contributor for Swinburne to be listed as a world top 100 research university in the field of physics (2011-) and a world Top 400 University in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) as well as in Times Higher Education rankings.
Professor Gu was a member of Prime Minister’s 2014 Trade Delegation (Education) to China. He served on the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Evaluation Committee (ARC), the Board of the ARC Centre of Excellence, the Steering Committee of the Cooperation Research Centre (CRC), the Major National Research Facilities Program Evaluation Committee (Department of Education, Science and Training), International Science Linkages Assessment Panel (Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research), the Sectional Committee and the International Committee of the Australian Academy of Science and the Council of the Australian Optical Society (AOS). Internationally, he was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences and is Vice President of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and serves on the ICO Galileo Galilei Award Committee and the Young Scientist Prize Committee in Optics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (United Nations). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America (OSA) (Executive committee, the finance committee, Chair of the International Council, Chair of the Working Group on Asia).
He gained a PhD degree in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow first at the University of New South Wales, and later at the University of Sydney where he was awarded an Australian Research Fellowship of the ARC. He joined Victoria University of Technology in 1995, where he became Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of Optical Technology Research Laboratory. He was appointed as Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Foundation Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics in 2000, which has won external grants of A$100 m and is the largest Tier One Research Centre at Swinburne with a research budget of A$7 m and more than 70 research staff and students. He has been a Node Director the ARC Centres of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (A$54 m) since 2003 and a node leader of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers since 2005. He is also the Director of the Federal- and State-Government-funded Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility (A$52 m) that he initiated and established in 2010.
Professor Gu is a pioneer and an internationally-leading authority on three-dimensional optical imaging science. He is a sole author of two standard reference books and the first author of the book published by Cambridge University Press. He has over 800 publications (over 400 papers in internationally refereed journals including Nature, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications) in nano/biophotonics. He is a member of the 15 Editorial Boards of top international journals. He has been a member of the Advisory/Steering/Organizing committees as well as a plenary/invited/keynote speaker of many international conferences (more than 250). Professor Gu’s ground-breaking research work in the area of nano/biophotonics has been featured more than 2500 times in media reports. His inventions in five-dimensional high-density optical data storage, nanoplasmonic solar cells and nonlinear optical endoscopy has led to the establishment of six spin-off companies and industrial joint R&D projects with international leading companies.
Professor Gu received the University Research Excellence Award (2002), Vice-Chancellor Research Award (2009) and Industry Engagement Award (2011). He was awarded the University Distinguished Professor in 2003. He received the 2003 Achievement Award from the AusIndustry. He was awarded the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship (Ministry for Education, China, 2007), the World Class University Professorship (Ministry for Education, Korea, 2009), the Thousand Talents Award (Ministry for Education, China, 2009), the Einstein Professorship (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010), and the prestigious Beattie Steel Medal (AOS, 2011). He was a Finalist of the Australian Innovation Competition (2013) and a recipient of the Ian Wark Medal and Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science (2014).