Emerging Materials for Plasmonics in the Visible Region : From Discovery to Application

Brief Bio:

Dr. Yu-Jung Lu received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2013. From 2015 to 2017, she held a Postdoctoral position in Prof. Harry Atwater’s research group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Dr. Lu is currently a Group Leader in RCAS at Academia Sinica/ Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. She is a materials physicist with expertise in the fields of active plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metamaterials. Her research interests are within an interdisciplinary field of active plasmonics/nanophotonics, focusing on plasmonic nanodevices to investigate harvesting, generating, and manipulating light at the nanoscale. Moreover, she actively participates in the activities and services of scientific professional societies; she is a member of MRS, SPIE, and OSA. She serves as a referee for numerous prestigious journals and is a chair, co-chair, and committee for international symposiums. Dr. Lu is currently an Associate Editor for OSA Continuum, Advanced Photonics, and the Journal of Lightwave Technology. She served as Symposium Organizer for plasmonic-related symposiums at the GNP (2019), MRS Fall (2019, 2021, 2022), META (2020), SPIE O+P (2021, 2022), CLEO Pacific Rim (2022). In addition, she served as a committee member for various international conferences (SPIE O+P, SSDM, iSPN, OSA AP). She has been recognized internationally; she was selected to be one of the SPIE Women in Optics Planners in 2021. Dr. Lu received several awards from Taiwan, including the 56th Taiwan Ten Outstanding Young Persons (2018), the Career Development Award (2018), Youth Optical Engineering Medal of the Taiwan Photonics Society (2020). Her research works have been published in various journals, including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Nano Energy, and Science.


Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences 中研院應科中心 副研究員 (2022/11~)
Assistant Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences 中研院應科中心 助研究員(2017/4~2022/10)
Joint Appointment Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, National Taiwan University 台大物理合聘助理教授 (2018/2~present)
Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA 美國加州理工訪問學者 (May 2017 ~present)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 國立清華大學博士後研究員 (Oct 2013 – April 2015)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA 美國加州理工博士後研究員 (May 2015 – April 2017)
Associate Editor of Advanced Photonics 國際期刊副編輯 (SPIE; 2021- present)
Associate Editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology 國際期刊副編輯 (IEEE; 2022- present)
Associate Editor of Optics Continuum 國際期刊副編輯 (Optica; 2021- present)
Board members of Taiwan Information Storage Association (TISA), Taiwan 台灣資訊儲存技術協會_理事 (2020-present)
2019 MRS Fall, Boston, MA, USA (Symposium Chair)(2019,2021,2022)美國材料學會秋季會議主席
2019 Global Nanophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan (2019/12) (Conference Chair) 國際奈米光學研討會會議主席
Meta 2020 (2020) Symposium Chair 國際超穎材料研討會會議主席
SPIE O+P Symposium Chair (San Diego, 2021 ~present) 國際光電工程學會O+P研討會會議主席
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress,SSDM, iSPN (Conference Committee)(2020)會議委員
2021 SPIE Women in Optics Planner 國際光電工程學會(2021)
Youth Photonics Award, Taiwan Photonics Society 中華民國光電學會青年光電工程獎(2020)
"Career Development Award, Academia Sinica" 中央研究院前瞻計畫 (2018)
"56th Ten Outstanding Young Persons" 第56屆中華民國十大傑出青年 (2018)