Philip Russell Receives 2025 CAS International Science and Technology Cooperation Award
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Philip St. John Russell, a professor at the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, has received the 2025 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Russell proposed the concept of microstructured photonic crystal fiber in 1991, and in 1996 and 1999 led teams that produced the world's first solid-core and hollow-core microstructured fibers, respectively.
Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences presented its 2025 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Award, Young Scientist Award, International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, Person of the Year and Team of the Year, and jointly with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security commended outstanding collectives and individuals.Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, and Professor Philip St. John Russell (Philip St. John Russell) of the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science at the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics received the 2025 CAS International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
The CAS International Science and Technology Cooperation Award was established in 2007 to recognize and reward high-level foreign science, technology and management experts who have made outstanding contributions to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' international cooperation in science and technology, and to encourage more foreign experts to actively participate in CAS international cooperation.
Philip Russell
Professor Philip Russell is known as the father of photonic crystal fiber. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of the Optical Society of America, and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. He currently works full time at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he founded the Russell Center for Advanced Lightwave Science.
Professor Russell originally proposed the concept of microstructured photonic crystal fiber in 1991. In 1996, he led a team that fabricated the world's first solid-core microstructured fiber, and in 1999, he led a team that fabricated the world's first hollow-core microstructured fiber. For nearly 30 years, the team led by Professor Russell has been committed to frontier fundamental research and applied technology development in microstructured optical fiber, and is widely recognized as a leader in the science and technology of microstructured optical fiber.
Source: Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics · Recent Highlights · hiom.ac.cn