Director,
The Centre for Micro-photonics
Background
Professor Min Gu, an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Science as well as the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, gained a PhD degree in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988. He came to Australia in 1988 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow first at the University of New South Wales , and later at the University of Sydney . In 1991, 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 age of 38).
At the beginning of 2000, he was invited for the appointment of Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology. He won the 2002 Swinburne Research Excellence Award and was awarded the University Distinguished Professor in 2003. From 2003, he has also been a Node Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. He was a Dean of Science and Deputy Dean of the Faculty at Swinburne. From the beginning of 2006, he has become a member of the University Council.
Professor Gu is a sole author of two standard reference books , Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes (World Scientific) and Advanced Optical Imaging Theory (Springer-Verlag), published in 1996 and 2000 respectively. He published over 450 papers (including 250 papers in internationally refereed journals) in photonic crystals, nanophotonics, micro/nanofabrication, confocal microscopy, laser tweezers, optoelectronic imaging through tissue-like turbid media, laser trapping microscopy, and three-dimensional optical data storage. He is Topical Editor of Applied Optics/Optical Technology and Biomedical Optics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics Communications, Journal of Microscopy, Optik, Chinese Optics Letters, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging and the International Journal of Scanning Microscopies and was the Guest Editor of Applied Optics and the International Journal of Optical Memory and Neural Networks. He has been a member of the Advisory/Steering/Organizing committees of numerous international conferences including International Conferences on Confocal Microscopy and International Conferences on Optics within Life Sciences. He was/is a plenary/invited/keynote speaker on numerous international conferences. He is/was Past President (2004-), President (2002-2004) and the Regional Council member (2000-) of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences. He is Vice President of the International Commission for Optics (2005-). Professor Gu is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optical Engineering. He serves on Fellows and Honorary Members Committee, Optical Society of America and is a council member of the Australian Optics Society.
Professor Gu has conducted many pioneering projects in the area of micro/nanophotonics, which have been featured in more than 50 world wide media including 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. One of his inventions is the localised photorefractive effect under two-photon excitation. This innovative method allows one to achieve rewritable three-dimensional high-density optical data storage in low-cost polymer materials and to fabricate three-dimensional photonic crystals. Based on this new technique, a spin-off company ( 3DCD Technology Pty. Ltd .) was established by Swinburne University of Technology in 2001 and received the COMET Grant and Achievement Award from the AusIndustry in 2002. The second spin-off company in this area is InFocus Enterprises Pty. Ltd ., established by his PhD student. Another invention of his work is nonlinear optical endoscopy from which a new spin-off company ( InVision Medical Technologies Pty. Ltd. ) (www.invisionmtech.com/) was established in 2003 and received the COMET Grant in 2005.
Membership of Professional Organisations
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
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
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
2007-: Frontier of Optoelectronics - China
2007-: Optics and Photonics Letters
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
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.
Publications
2 sole-author books
11 book chapters
250 papers in internationally refereed journals
75 papers in refereed proceedings
200 abstracts on international conferences
10 general scientific articles
50 public seminars in Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Romania, Taiwan, Singapore, Switzerland, UK, USA,
2 patents ( Australia , USA , Singapore ) and 10 provisional patents
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