Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Dr. Ortwin Hess
School of Physics and CRANN Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Ortwin Hess is the Chair Professor of Quantum Nanophotonics and SFI Research Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, in Ireland. Before joining Trinity College he has been the Leverhulme Chair in Metamaterials in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London in the UK. He is a Professor Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. For his research he has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of Optica.
Ortwin obtained his PhD degree and Habilitation in Berlin and Stuttgart, respectively. From 2003 to 2010 he was a professor at the University of Surrey (UK). He was visiting professor at Stanford University (USA), Tampere University (Finland) and the University of Munich (Germany).
Dr. Hess’s research interests bridge quantum nanophotonics with laser science and quantum metamaterials physics. He discovered the ‘trapped-rainbow’ principle, made defining contributions to the fields of spatio-temporal and quantum dynamics in semiconductor lasers and pioneered active quantum nanoplasmonics and optical metamaterials with quantum gain for which he has been awarded the Royal Society Rumford Medal1.
The Rumford Medal1 is awarded since 1800 by the Royal Society for outstanding research in the field of physics. Notable previous recipients of the Rumford Medal include (for example): Michael Faraday, Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, John Tyndall, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Anton Lorentz, Lord Rayleigh, William Henry Bragg, Friedrich Paschen and Peter Debye.
Associate Editors
TU Braunschweig, Germany
Stefanie Kroker studied Physics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena/Germany and Universidad de Granada/Spain. She did her Ph.D. with the Institute of Applied Physics at Friedrich Schiller University in 2014 and became an assistant professor at TU Braunschweig and the German National Metrology Institute, PTB, in 2016. In 2020, Stefanie Kroker received the Science Award Lower Saxony, and in 2021, she was appointed to a full professorship at TU Braunschweig. She is a member of the German clusters of excellence QuantumFrontiers and PhoenixD.
Academia Sinica/National Taiwan University
Dr. Yu-Jung Lu is an Associate Research Fellow in the Research Center for Applied Sciences at Academia Sinica and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. Dr. Lu received her Ph.D. in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2013. She later held a Postdoctoral position in Prof. Harry Atwater’s research group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA, from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Lu is a renowned materials physicist who specializes in active plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metamaterials. Her research focuses on plasmonic nanodevices that enable the harvesting, generation, and manipulation of light at the nanoscale.
Dr. Lu has made significant contributions to the plasmonics field, including discovering refractory plasmonic materials such as conductive transition metal nitrides and their nanoplasmonic devices. She is an active member of MRS, SPIE, and OPTICA, and serves as a referee for many prestigious journals. She has also chaired, co-chaired, and served as a committee member for international symposiums. In 2021, she was selected as one of the SPIE Women in Optics Planners. In 2023, she was elected as a SPIE Senior Member.
Dr. Lu has received several awards from Taiwan, including the 56th Taiwan Ten Outstanding Young Persons (2018), the Career Development Award (2018), and the Youth Optical Engineering Medal of the Taiwan Photonics Society (2020). Her research has been published in high-impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Nano Energy, and Science.
Monash University, Australia
Professor Malin Premaratne is a renowned expert in quantum device theory and engineering, specializing in quantum optics and electrodynamics to design and simulate advanced quantum devices. His research spans diverse media, including optical fibers, semiconductors, nanoparticles, and biological tissues, leading to groundbreaking advancements in lasers, optical amplifiers, spasers, and transistors. With over 250 journal publications and two books, his work bridges theoretical physics with practical electrical engineering, driving innovation in both fundamental science and applied technology.
He holds a BSc, BE, and PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a Full Professor at Monash University, where he previously served as Vice President of the Academic Board. He is also a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech. Beyond academia, Malin has extensive industry experience, having worked with Fortune 500 companies and leading technology firms such as Telstra, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Ericsson, and Siemens.
Zhejiang University, China
Jian-Qiang You is the Qiushi Professor of Physics at Zhejiang University. Before joining this University, he was a Chair Professor of Physics at Beijing Computational Science Research Center and had been the Xie Xide Professor of Physics at Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the RIKEN Frontier Research System Grand Award in 2003, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006, and the Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of Chinese Ministry of Education in 2008. He was also selected as the Leading Talent of “Ten Thousand Plan” (the National High-Level Talents Special Support Plan of China) in 2016. His research interests include quantum computing and quantum information, solid-state quantum optics, hybrid quantum systems, and mesoscopic physics.