The 2018 Willis E. Lamb Award For pioneering experimental research at the frontier of optical implementation of quantum information.

Awarded January 11, 2018, at the 48th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics.

Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China

For pioneering experimental research at the frontier of optical implementation of quantum information.

Jian-Wei Pan, born on 11 March 1970, received his Bachelor (1992) and Master (1995) in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, and his PhD (1999) from the University of Vienna. After his PhD, Pan worked in Anton Zeilinger’s group in Vienna as a senior research associate until 2003 when he joined the University of Heidelberg to build up his group with Emmy Noether Research Award, Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, and Marie Curie Excellence Research Award. Since 2009 Pan is an honorary professor of the University of Heidelberg. He is currently a Professor of Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China, an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He serves as the Director of the CAS Centre for Excellence and Innovation in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, and the Chief Scientist for the Quantum Science Satellite Project, and the Beijing-to-Shanghai 2000-km Quantum Communication Backbone Project. Jian-Wei Pan has authored more than 300 articles which have attracted more than 42000 citations (Google scholar). Pan has won Fresnel Prize from European Physical Society, Quantum Communications Award, First Prize of National Prize for Natural Sciences of China, Future Prize in Physical Science, Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Newcomb Cleveland Prize form American Association for the Advancement of Science, R. W. Wood Prize from Optical Society of America, Micius Quantum Prize, Zeiss Research Award and was selected by Nature as “people of the year” in 2017 who “took quantum communication to space and back”.

Bio provided by Jian-Wei Pan, 2020.