Prof. Zexiang Shen

Prof. Zexiang Shen graduated from King’s College London with a PhD in Physics in 1989 and was awarded the King’s College London Prize for Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation. He is a Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is currently Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Centre for Advanced Photonics Technology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the Founding Associate Dean of the School of Mathematics and Science and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School Programme at Nanyang Technological University. He has received the Singapore Newcomer Award for Outstanding Contribution, the Global Highly Cited Researcher, an Honorary Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, an Adjunct Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences and other internationally renowned institutions, the Singapore Physical Society Gold Medal for Research Excellence, the Nanyang Technological University Research Innovation Award, an expert on the Expert Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and a former President of the Singapore-China Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology Exchange. He was invited by the Nobel Prize Committee to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics and was invited to nominate candidates for the Japan Prize; under his initiative, Nanyang Technological University established the Institute of Photonics, with Sir David Payne as Director, and the Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies. He also began NTU’s collaboration with the Vietnam National University (Hanoi), initiated agreements with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Moscow State University (MSU).