Recently, Dr. Gao Peng of our institute won the Humboldt Research Fellowship 2011 which was granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. As a well-known scholarship which has an internationally lofty good reputation, the Humboldt Research Fellowship was annually granted to about 600 foreign academics under 40 who have doctoral degrees and excellent achievements. Award winners would be invited to spend a period of one to two years on scientific research in Germany. About twenty years ago in 1980s, Dr. Guo Lihui of our institute was granted this award, and now we won the laurel again.
Dr. Gao Peng, an optics major, was graduated from State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics of XIOPM in 2011. Taught by researcher Yao Baoli, Gao Peng primarily focuses on the theory and experimental research about the phase-shifting diffraction interferometry with common-path and in-line configuration for microscopy, which is the basic advanced subject in the field of optics. He has published 11 papers in Optics Letters (4 papers), Optics Express and other international SCI academic journals as the first author. His papers were cited for 38 times and the monographs were cited 16 times at most. He has also applied for 2 patents for inventions. In 2011, Dr. Gao Peng won the Honorable Mention of CAS President Fellowship. In 2008, he obtained the Excellent Doctoral Student Scholarship of CAS Zhu Liyuehua Award and in the same year he went to Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany for a one-year joint training.
During his study period for a doctoral degree, Dr. Gao Peng got attention and support of the leaders of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, especially his supervisor, researcher Yao Baoli, who poured into massive painstaking care. In the process of graduates training, researcher Yao Baoli was rigorous and factualistic, he taught students in accordance of their aptitude and patiently gave the them detailed instructions on the thesis’s topic, research plan, thesis writing, work details and the problems in the research. He fostered a group of excellent graduates, including Gao Peng, Yan Shaohui and Lei Ming, and 12 of them won various awards of CAS. Researcher Yao Baoli himself won the honorary title the Outstanding Teacher Award of CAS Zhu Liyuehua Award in 2008 and the Outstanding Graduates Tutor of CAS in 2011.
Dr. Gao Peng graduated in 2011 and stayed to work in State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics. His achievement of Humboldt Research Fellowship is a kind of endorsement of himself and our institute, which provides XIOPM good opportunity for international exchange and cooperation.
Attached: Introduction to the Humboldt Research Fellowship
Established in 1860 and named after the great German natural scientist and social activist Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has long enjoyed a good reputation and great impact and lofty academic reputation on an international level. It mainly provides research support to the world excellent young scientists and academics, promotes the communications between them and develops international scientific cooperation. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants fellowship to about 600 foreign academics under 40 who have doctoral degrees and excellent achievements. Award winners would be invited to spend a period of one to two years on scientific research in Germany. It has strict selection procedures. The nomination may be submitted to the selection committee which is established by about 100 famous scientists in various fields for further debate and vote. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity, discipline and gender, the outstanding academics and research ability is the only requirement for the support. As the supreme honor to the Humboldt Academics, since 1954, the German president would have an interview with the Humboldt Academics of the year and their families in the presidential palace in Hermle Schmidt. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation adopts “One-time support, life long benefit” which means when the Humboldt Academics return home, the Foundation will still continue the support. From 1953 to date, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has provided research fellowship to more than 24000 scientists from about 130 States. 40 scientists of them have won the Nobel Prize. 1580 Chinese academics in total have ever been supported, including nuclear giant Academician He Zehui, Chinese surgery founder Academician Qiu Fazu, the former president of CAS Lu Yongxiang, deputy president Yan Yixun and the former minister of Ministry of Education Wei Yu.