An Pan is an associate professor and a principal investigator at Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, and the head of Pioneering Interdiscipline Center (PIC), State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics (www.piclaboratory.com). Pan received his B.E. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China in 2014. And he obtained his Ph.D. in optical Engineering at XIOPM, CAS, China in 2020. Meanwhile, Pan was a visiting graduate at Bar-Ilan University, Israel in 2016 and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA from 2018 to 2019, respectively. His research focuses on computational optical imaging and biophotonics.

An Pan is the winner of the 2021 Forbes China 30 Under 30 List, 2021 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of CAS, 2020 Special President Award of CAS, 2019 OSA Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship, the 1st Place Poster Award of the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany (Lindau Scholar), and 2017 SPIE Optics & Photonics Education Scholarship. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and is a referee for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals. He is the early career member of OSA and SPIE. He is committed to providing career advice, technical knowledge, and mentorship to support students and early career professionals in the optics and photonics community by sharing stories and lessons learned from his multidisciplinary and multicultural research, education, and volunteering experiences.