QIU, Cheng Wei

PROFESSOR

Provost’s Chair Professor

Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu holds the Provost’s Chair Professorship. He is Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He is Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE and The Electromagnetics Academy, US. He is Foreign Fellow of Chinese Optical Society. He is Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. He is well known for his research in structured light and metasurfaces. He has published 500+ peer-reviewed journal papers, and as correspondence author, he has published in Science (4), Nature (9), Physical Review Letters (30+), PNAS (10), Nature Photonics (8), Nature Materials (6), Nature Nanotechnology (5), Nature Electronics (2), Nature Physics (2), Nature Communications (30+), Science Advances (11), Nature Reviews Physics (1), Nature Reviews Materials (2), Chemical Reviews (4), etc. His team is purely composed of smart and diligent postdocs and phd students.

He was the recipient of the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics in 2005, IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award in 2006, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2008, NUS Young Investigator Award in 2011, MIT TR35@Singapore Award in 2012, Young Scientist Award by Singapore National Academy of Science in 2013, Faculty Young Research Award in NUS 2013, SPIE Rising Researcher Award 2018, Young Engineering Research Award 2018, and Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, World Scientific Medal 2021 by Institute of Physics Singapore, and Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize) 2023 by International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer 2023, and President’s Science Award 2023 in Singapore, the highest science accolade in Singapore.

He was Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science since 2019. His work has been selected as Top 10 Breakthroughs 2020 by Physics World, and Optics in 2021 & 2023 by Optica. As an overseas partner, he has been awarded China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs for 7 times (2019, 2020, twice in 2021, 2023, twice in 2025). He has served as Associate Editor for various journals such as JOSA B, PhotoniX, Photonics Research. Now he serves as Editor-in-Chief for eLight (IF: 27.2). He also serves in Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Reviews, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics.

He has mentored next generation of academic scientists and industrial entrepreneurs. 40+ out of his former phd students and postdoctoral research fellows have been Assistant, Associate and Full Professors, including Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (Overseas), Humboldt Scholar, Nanyang Assistant Professor in Nanyang Technological University and Assistant Professor in University of Macao. Some of his former phd students have been CTO and CEO of high-tech companies in Singapore and China.

Publication

Representative Publications (*correspondence/co-correspondence author)

Physical Review Letters:

  1. Physical Review Letters 107, 203601 (2011).
  2. Physical Review Letters 109, 023902 (2012).
  3. Physical Review Letters 112, 054302 (2014).
  4. Physical Review Letters 120, 123901 (2018).
  5. Physical Review Letters 124, 143901 (2020).
  6. Physical Review Letters 125, 043901 (2020).
  7. Physical Review Letters 125, 187403 (2020).
  8. Physical Review Letters 127, 105901 (2021).
  9. Physical Review Letters 127, 176101 (2021).
  10. Physical Review Letters 127, 217401 (2021).
  11. Physical Review Letters 127, 266101 (2021).
  12. Physical Review Letters 128, 145901 (2022).
  13. Physical Review Letters 128, 146102 (2022).
  14. Physical Review Letters 129, 053902 (2022).
  15. Physical Review Letters 129, 155901 (2022).
  16. Physical Review Letters 129, 256601 (2022).
  17. Physical Review Letters 130, 227201 (2023).
  18. Physical Review Letters 130, 266303 (2023).
  19. Physical Review Letters 132, 253802 (2024).
  20. Physical Review Letters 132, 253803 (2024).
  21. Physical Review Letters 133, 066902 (2024).
  22. Physical Review Letters 133, 233802 (2024).
  23. Physical Review Letters 134, 023804 (2025).
  24. Physical Review Letters 134, 137001 (2025).
  25. Physical Review Letters 134, 196901 (2025).
  26. Physical Review Letters 134, 203803 (2025).
  27. Physical Review Letters 134, 223806 (2025).
  28. Physical Review Letters 135, 067103 (2025).

Science & Nature:

  1. Science 357, 645 (2017).
  2. Science 364, 170 (2019).
  3. Nature 582, 209 (2020).
  4. Science 374 (2021).
  5. Nature 596, 362 (2021).
  6. Nature 597, 187 (2021).
  7. Nature 613, 474 (2023).
  8. Nature 613, 53 (2023).
  9. Nature 619, E40 (2023).
  10. Nature 630, 77 (2024).
  11. Science 386, 1377 (2024)
  12. Nature 639, 602 (2025)
  13. Nature, 643, 80 (2025)

NPG:

  1. Nature Materials 18, 48 (2019).
  2. Nature Photonics 13, 467 (2019).
  3. Nature Electronics 3, 165 (2020).
  4. Nature Electronics 4, 382 (2021).
  5. Nature Photonics 15, 614 (2021).
  6. Nature Nanotechnology 16, 795 (2021).
  7. Nature Nanotechnology 17, 1178 (2022).
  8. Nature Physics 18, 450 (2022).
  9. Nature Materials 22, 1065 (2023).
  10. Nature Materials 22, 1196 (2023).
  11. Nature Nanotechnology 18, 64 (2023).
  12. Nature Nanotechnology 18, 706 (2023).
  13. Nature Nanotechnology 18, 264 (2023).
  14. Nature Photonics 17, 601 (2023).
  15. Nature Photonics 17, 622 (2023).
  16. Nature Photonics 17, 171 (2023).
  17. Nature Physics 19, 414 (2023).
  18. Nature Computational Science 4, 532 (2024).
  19. Nature Materials 23, 1169 (2024).
  20. Nature Photonics 18, 412 (2024).
  21. Nature Photonics 18. 1170 (2024).
  22. Nature Electronics 7, 1004 (2024)
  23. Nature Nanotechnology 19, 1472 (2024).
  24. Nature Photonics 19, 109 (2025).
  25. Nature Materials 24, 861 (2025)
  26. Nature Electronics, Xingsi 2025
  27. Nature Electronics, Zhipeng 2025

PNAS:

  1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 118, e2020055118 (2021).
  2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119, e2115939119 (2022).
  3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119, e2110018119 (2022).
  4. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119, e2209218119 (2022).
  5. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119, e2209721119 (2022).
  6. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 120, e2305755120 (2023).
  7. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 121, e2319465121 (2024).
  8. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 121, e2408843121 (2024).
  9. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 121, e2408974121 (2024).
  10. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 121, e2412031121 (2024).
  11. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2500760122 (2025).

Reviews:

  1. Reports on Progress in Physics 80, 066401 (2017).
  2. Advances in Optics and Photonics 12, 288 (2020).
  3. Chemical Reviews 120, 6197 (2020).
  4. Nature Reviews Materials 6, 488 (2021).
  5. Applied Physics Reviews 9, 288 (2022).
  6. Chemical Reviews 122, 15450 (2022).
  7. Nature Reviews Physics 4, 113 (2022).
  8. Chemical Reviews 122, 15204 (2022).
  9. Advances in Optics and Photonics 15, 835 (2023).
  10. Nature Reviews Materials 8, 498 (2023).

Staff Details

Contact Number

6516 2559

Email Address

eleqc@nus.edu.sg

Location

E4-05-17

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