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Acclaim for leading photonics researcher

Date posted: Thursday 8 Sep 2011

Acclaim for leading photonics researcher
Swinburne University of Technology’s world-class photonics researcher Professor Min Gu has been awarded the WH (Beattie) Steel Medal from the Australian Optics Society.

Considered Australia’s most prestigious award in optics, the medal recognises Professor Gu’s strong and sustained record of authority, enterprise and innovation in the field.

Professor Gu, who is Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics and Pro Vice-Chancellor (International Research Collaboration) at Swinburne, is regarded as a world leader in three dimensional optical imaging science.  

 

Last year he received an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the federal government.

Professor Gu said he viewed his most recent award as recognition of the pioneering research conducted by the entire team at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics. Researchers at the centre have recently:

“At Swinburne, we have led some exciting advancements in physics and photonics that will influence the way we live in the 21st century,” Professor Gu said. “The discoveries we make today will shape our future industries, contributing to energy creation, information and communication technologies, medical research and our environment.”

The announcement of the award comes just weeks after Swinburne was named one of the top 100 universities in the world in the field of physics research by the Academic Ranking of World Universities – one of only three universities in Australia to make the list.

The WH (Beattie) Steel Medal is named after Dr William Howard ‘Beattie’ Steel (1920 – 2004), the first ever chairman of the Australian Optical Society and an international leader in optics and interferometry.

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