Cheng-Wei Qiu

Cheng-Wei Qiu is Provost’s Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BE from the University of Science and Technology of China and his PhD from NUS. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Physics Department prior to joining NUS. He is well known for his research in structured light, metasurface photonics, and hybrid interface optics with van der Waals crystals and symmetry-breaking low-dimensional materials.

He has served in Associate Editor roles for various journals such as JOSA B, PhotoniX, Photonics Research, and Editor-in-Chief for eLight. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Review, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher since 2019 as rated by Web of Science and as an overseas partner, he has been awarded China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs six times.

Qiu is a Fellow of Optica, APS, SPIE, Academy of Engineering Singapore, ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, and the Electromagnetics Academy, and a Foreign Fellow of Chinese Optical Society. His awards include the Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, the Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize), MIT TR35@Singapore Award, Young Scientist Award, and the President’s Science Award, the highest science distinction in Singapore.