Prof. Min Gu   Director of Centre for Micro-Photonics

Background

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).

He is a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Previously, he was Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor (Staff Development), Dean of Science, a Deputy Dean of the Faculty and a member of the University Council, Academic Board and Board of Research at Swinburne.

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. He was awarded an Australian Research Fellowship of the Australian Research Council at the University of Sydney. He joined Victoria University of Technology in 1995, where he became Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of Optical Technology Research Laboratory 1998.

At the beginning of 2000, he was invited for the appointment of Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics (research budget AUD$7M and 60 research staff and students in 2010) at Swinburne University of Technology. He is also the Director of the State-Government-funded Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility that he initiated and established in 2010. He was awarded the University Distinguished Professor in 2003. From 2003, he has been a Node Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (AUD$54M). Since 2005, he has been a node leader of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers. His discipline, Physical Science, has been rated to be 5 stars in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings (Australian Research Council, 2011).

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, Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes (World Scientific, 1996) and Advanced Optical Imaging Theory (Springer-Verlag, 2000). He is also the first author of the book published by Cambridge University Press (Femtosecond Biophotonics: Core Techniques and Applications, 2010). He has over 800 publications (over 330 papers in internationally refereed journals including Nature and Nature Photonics) in photonic crystals and devices, nanophotonics/biophotonics, micro/nanofabrication, confocal and multiphoton microscopy, laser tweezers, optoelectronic imaging through tissue-like turbid media, laser trapping and neat-field microscopy, multi-dimensional optical data storage and photovoltaics. He is a member of the 14 Editorial Boards of top international journals. He has been a member of the Advisory/Steering/Organizing committees of many international conferences (more than 120). He was/is a plenary/invited/keynote speaker on many international conferences (more than 120). He was President (2002-2004) and is Vice President (2004-2012) of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences. He is Vice President of the International Commission for Optics (2005-2011).

He received the University Research Excellence Award in 2002 and the Vice-Chancellor Research Awards in 2009. 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 Science, 2010), and the Laureate Fellowship (Australian Research Council, 2010).

Professor Gu has conducted many pioneering projects in the area of bio/nanophotonics and his ground breaking research work has been featured more than 2000 times in media reports including Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Asia-Materials, Biophotonics International, Photonics Spectra, Laser Focus World, Economists, Australian Optical Society News, The Australian, The Age, The Herald Sun, Campus Review, Australasian Science and ABC TV and Radio. His inventions include five-dimensional high-density optical data storage, nanoplasmonic solar cells and nonlinear optical endoscopy. Consequently, six spin-off companies were established, 3DCD Technology Pty. Ltd. in 2001 (received the COMET Grant and Achievement Award from the AusIndustry in 2002), InFocus Enterprises Pty. Ltd. in 2003, InVision Medical Technologies Pty. Ltd. in 2003 (received the COMET Grant in 2005), Image Cytometrics Pty. Ltd. in 2008 (received the COMET grant in 2008), Biosurfaces Pty Ltd. in 2008 and RongXing SciTech Co in 2009. Four international leading companies, Samsung Electronics (Korea), Suntech Power Holdings (China), OptiScan Pty. Ltd. (Australia) and Genera Biosystems Pty. Ltd. (Australia), have established joint R&D projects with Professor Gu's Centre.

Membership of Professional Organisations

2008-

• Fellow, Institute of Physics (IOP, UK).
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Vice President of the International Commission for Optics
• Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Fellow, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Member, the International Society of Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS)
• Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Member, Australian Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Member, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Member, Australian Optical Society (AOS)

Professional Societies

• Chinese Australian Photonics Association (founding member, Secretary)
• Secretary, Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics
• Vice Chair, Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics
• Bragg Medal Selection Panel, Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics
• Regional Council of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences
• President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences
• Past President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences
• Vice President of the International Commission for Optics
• Fellow and Honorary Members Committee, Optical Society of America
• Council member, Australian Optical Society
• Divisional Committee, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• International committee member, Australian Academy of Sciences

2009-2010

• President, The Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia

Honorary /Guest/Visiting Professorship

• 1995-2001: Guest Professor , Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , P. R. China
• 2002-: Honorary Professor , Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , P. R. China
• 2000: Guest Professor , Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University , Japan
• 2001-2004: Guest Professor , Shanghai Jiaotong University , P. R. China
• 2001-2007: Visiting Professor , Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
• 2002-2005: Guest Professor , Tsinghua University , P. R. China
• 2003, 2005: Visiting Professor , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA
• 2005-2006: Visiting Professor , University of St. Andrews , UK
• 2005, 2007: Visiting Professor, Fudan University, P. R. China.
• 2009-2011: Honorary Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
• 2009-2011: World Class University Visiting Professor, Pusan National University, Korea.
• 2009-2014: Guest Professor, Changchun University of Science and Technology, P. R. China.
• 2009-2012: National Expert Professor, Zhejinag University, P. R. China

Editorship of International Journals

• 1998: Guest Editor: International Journal of Optical Memory and Neural Networks ( USA )
• 2000: Guest Editor: Applied Optics, Optical Society of America ( USA )
• 2003: Co-Editor Proceedings of SPIE , 5254 and 5255 ( USA )
• 2004: Topical Editor: Applied Optics: Optical Technology and Biomedical Optics, Optical Society of America ( USA )
• 2005: Associate Editor: International Journal of Biomedical Imaging ( USA )
• 2007: Editor: Journal of Biomedical Optics

Membership of Editorial/Advisory Boards of International Journals

• 1998-: International Journal of Scanning Microscopies ( USA )
• 2001-: Optics Communications ( Netherlands )
• 2003-: Journal of Microscopy ( UK )
• 2003-: Chinese Optics Letters
• 2004-: Optik ( Germany )
• 2004-: GIT Imaging and Microscopy ( Germany )
• 2004-: Applied Optics ( USA )
• 2005-: International Journal of Biomedical Imaging ( USA )
• 2005-: Journal of Biophotonics
• 2007-: Journal of Biomedical Optics
• 2007-: Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (World Scientific, Singapore)
• 2007-: Frontier of Optoelectronics-China (Higher Education Publishing, China)
• 2007-: Optics and Photonics Letters (World Scientific, Singapore)
• 2007-: Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
• 2007-: Frontier of Optoelectronics - China
• 2007-: Optics and Photonics Letters
• 2009-: Journal Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials (World Scientific, Singapore)

Assessor of Grants

• 1994-: Australian Research Council, Australia
• 1998-: National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
• 1999-: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
• 2002-: Agency for Science, Technology & Research, Singapore
• 2003: National Research Council of Canada
• 2003: National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC)
• 2003-: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2003: Department of Innovation, HK
• 2004: Science Foundation Ireland
• 2005: European Science Foundation
• 2006: Major National Research Facilities Program, Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), Australia
• 2006-: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK
• 2007: Research Council of Norway
• 2008-2011: International Science Linkages (ISL) Assessment Panel, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR), Australia.

Industry Experience

• 2001: Advisor, RedLab Pty. Ltd.
• 2001-: Advisor, 3DCD Technology Pty. Ltd.
• 2002: Advisor, OptiScan Pty. Ltd.
• 2002-: Advisor, Olympus China Co.
• 2004-: Advisor, InVision Medical Imaging Technologies Pty. Ltd.
• 2005-: Scientific Advisor, CapitalBio Co.

Prizes and Awards

• 1985: Visiting Fellowship Award (Nov-Dec); International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste , Italy
• 1988: Gordon-Godfrey Fellowship (May-Dec), The University of New South Wales , Australia
• 1992: Australian Research Fellowship Award, The Australian Research Council , Australia
• 1995: K. C. Wong Education Foundation Award (Dec), HK
• 1998: Visiting Fellowship Award (Jan), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , Japan
• 1999: Fellow of Australian Institute of Physics , Australia
• 2000: Visiting Professorship Award (Apr-Sep), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , Japan
• 2001: Senior Visiting Professorship Award, Tsinghua University , P. R. China
• 2002: The 2002 Research Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• 2002: Honorary Professorship Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2003: Fellow of International Society for Optical Engineering ( SPIE )
• 2003: University Distinguished Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• 2004: Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Yang-Ming University , Taiwan
• 2004: Fellow of Optical Society of America ( OSA )
• 2005: Foreign Visiting Professorship Award, Ministry for Education (April), P. R. China
• 2005: OSA Fellow Travel Award
• 2005: EPSRC Visiting Professorship Award ( UK )
• 2006: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• 2007: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
• 2007: Chueng Kong Distinguished Professor, Chinese Minstry of Education
• 2007: Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (AAS).
• 2008: Senior Member, International Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
• 2008: Fellow, Institute of Physics (IOP, UK).
• 2009: World Class Professorship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (not take).
• 2009: World Class University Visiting Professorship Award, Pusan National University, Korea.
• 2009: Thousand Talents Award, Ministry for Education of China.
• 2009: The 2009 Vice Chancellor's Research Award, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Publications

• 2 sole-author books and 1 first-author book
• 15 book chapters
• >290 papers in internationally refereed journals
• >140 papers in refereed proceedings
• >330 abstracts on international conferences
• 13 general scientific articles
• >70 public seminars in Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Romania, Taiwan, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA
• 3 patents (Australia, USA, Singapore) and 13 provisional patents

Recent Media

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  $4M boost to solar cell research

  A project to push the efficiency of nanoplasmonic solar cell technology has received a $4 million grant under the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF).

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  Nano breakthrough boosts data security

  Breakthrough research jointly completed by researchers Professor Min Gu and Dr. Xiangping Li of Swinburne and visiting PhD students from National Chiao Tung University,Taiwan, has demonstrated a novel means of encrypting data for secure electronic storage
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  Australian innovators in solar world first

  In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world's most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells.