Prof. Dr. Lijun Wang
Lijun Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1992. He was a Research Associate at Duke University from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 1996, he was a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of General Atomics Corp. From 1996 to 2004, he was a Research Scientist and subsequently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the NEC Research Institute (NEC Laboratories America) in Princeton, NJ.
From 2004 to 2008, he was a director of the Max-Planck Research Group – Institute for Optics, Information, and Photonics. He is also a Chair Professor of Experimental Physics (C4) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Erlangen, Germany. In 2006, he was appointed adjunct Professor of Engineering. Since January 2009, he is a Max-Planck Fellow (part time) at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).
Prof. Wang joined Tsinghua University Physics Department and the Department of Precision Instrumentation in 2008 (on leave through 2009), to start a new Joint Institute of Metrological Science – installed jointly by Tsinghua University and the National Institute of Metrology of China in January 2009.
Dr. Wang was a Visiting Fellow at JILA (1997-98) in the laboratory of Dr. J. L. Hall (2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics) and a Topical Editor of Optics Letters (1999-2003). Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).