Rate My Professor Jianwei Pan

Professor Jianwei Pan is a full professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1992 and master’s degree in 1995 from USTC, followed by a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Vienna. He serves as Executive Vice President of USTC and holds the position of distinguished chair professor in quantum optics and quantum physics. In 2011, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and appointed chief scientist of the quantum science experiments satellite. He was elected a TWAS Fellow in 2012 and appointed director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics in 2014. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Society.

Professor Pan’s research focuses on quantum information and quantum foundations. As a pioneer in experimental quantum information science, he has led major advances in quantum communication and multi-photon entanglement. His contributions have been recognized in Nature as features of the year and science events that shaped 2016 and 2017, in Science as Breakthrough of the Year 1998, and multiple times by the American Physical Society and Physics World as top stories or highlights of the year. Within China, his work has been selected eleven times among the Top Ten Annual Scientific and Technological Progresses. He has received awards including the R.W. Wood Prize, the ZEISS Research Award, and the Micius Prize. Professor Pan is also a lead editor for Physical Review Research.