Professor Chennupati Jagadish, a pioneer of nanotechnology, has been elected the next president of the Australian Academy of Sciences (AAS), says AAS on Nov. 25, 2021.

Prof. Jagadish, 64, is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Australian National University Research School of Physics and Engineering. In addition to nanotechnology, his research interests also include compound semiconductor optoelectronics, photovoltaics and neurotechnology.

He visited the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) in 2016, sponsored by the President’s International Fellowship Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After his visit, Prof. Jagadish maintained close academic cooperation with CIOMP researchers.

He was featured in Light: Science and Applications, a top optics journal co-launched by CIOMP and the Springer Nature Publishing Group, this year. As part of the Light People special feature series, he shared stories about his research and life with Light special correspondent Ms. WANG Hui.

Later, the professor also talked about his research and gave suggestions and advice to young science workers in iCANX Story, an online science talk show jointly produced by CIOMP and the iCANX platform, which prides itself as a “global innovation service platform”.

Prof. Jagadish was Vice-President and Secretary for Physical Sciences of the AAS from 2012 to 2016. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, APS, OSA, SPIE, AAAS, TWAS, etc., a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Applied Physics Reviews and had also served as EIC of Progress in Quantum Electronics.

He has been awarded the Australian Federation Fellowship (2004–2009) and the Australian Laureate Fellowship (2009–2014) by the Australian Research Council. He has received many awards, including The Quantum Device Award (ISCS, 2010), IEEE Pioneer in Nanotechnology Award (2015), IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award (2015), Distinguished Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (2016), Welker Award from ISCS (2017) and Lyle Medal from the Australian Academy of Science(2019).

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