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Short Bio of Prof. Wei Lu

Prof. Wei Lu received his bachelor degree from the Department of Physics, specializing in Lasers, at Fudan University in 1983. Then he received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988. From 1989 to 1991, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. He has been working at SITP, CAS since 1988. From 1996 to 2000, he served as the Deputy Director of SITP. He was the Director of China's Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics from 2001 to 2011, and the Director of SITP from 2013 to 2018. From 2019 to 2025, he served as the Executive Dean of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University. He has long been engaged in the research of semiconductor optoelectronics science and technology. He was awarded the second prize of the National Natural Science Award of China in 2014 and the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award of China in 2011. He has published over 300 SCI papers and 3 monographs, with his work being cited over 15,000 times in SCI journals. He has also been granted more than 150 invention patents.