Jun Guan (管君) joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as an assistant professor from July 2023. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Physics from Sichuan University in 2016; as part of her undergraduate studies, she was a visiting student at the University of Oxford and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics at Northwestern University in 2021 (advisors: Teri W. Odom and George C. Schatz). Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022-2023, advisor: Vladimir Bulović) and at Northwestern University (2021-2022, advisor: Teri W. Odom).

Prof. Guan’s research focuses on the design of plasmonic lattice architectures to manipulate light-matter interactions and to enable laser devices with diverse functionalities. She has published first-author papers in journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, and Nano Letters, and has been invited to give research talks at international conferences including the Gordon Research Conference, the SPIE Optics and Photonics, and the Molecular Foundry’s annual meeting at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Her work has been recognized by the Outstanding Researcher Award of International Institute for Nanotechnology, the Predictive Science and Engineering Design Fellowship, and the Terminal Year Fellowship at Northwestern University.