We are delighted to announce that Min Gu of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, has been chosen as the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award.
For pioneering contributions to multi-dimensional nanophotonic breakthroughs including orbital angular momentum division for ultrahigh-capacity optical data storage and holographic technology.
Professor Min Gu is the Executive Chancellor of the University Council and Distinguished Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT University, and a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Pro ViceChancellor, and a University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He is an author of four standard reference books, a translated book and an edited book, and has over 600 publications in nano/biophotonics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected fellow of the AIP, the OSA, the SPIE, the InstP, the IEEE and the COS. He was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences, Vice President of the Board of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and a Director of the Board of the Optical Society of America (Chair of the International Council). He was awarded the Einstein Professorship, the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, the Ian Wark Medal, the Boas Medal and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Professor Gu is a winner of the 2019 Dennis Gabor Award of SPIE, the 2022 Emmett Norman Leith Medal of OPTICA, the 2023 Shanghai Magnolia Silver Award and the 2025 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award of the IEEE.
