Min Gu

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 [1]. 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 [2]. 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. In 2008, Professor Min Gu was appointed as "Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor" at Swinburne University of Technology.

Professor Gu is a sole author of two standard reference books, Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes (World Scientific) [3] and Advanced Optical Imaging Theory (Springer-Verlag) [4], 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.