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CQU researcher granted Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

After strict review by the European Research Council, Researcher Yin Guolu of the School of Optoelectronic Engineering of Chongqing University was granted the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships the other day. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, which is named after Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes, is dubbed as one of the top 3 exceptional talent programs of Europe, enjoying considerable reputation all over the world. The other two are respectively Newton Advanced Fellowship and Wilhelm Von Humboldt Fellowship. It is also one of the top awards in Europe for encouraging individuals to carry out scientific research, and features high research level, extensive research area and heavy investment. With support of the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Foundation, Researcher Yin Guolu (https://www2.aston.ac.uk/eas/research/groups/photonics) is going to collaborate with Professor Lin Zhang from the Photonic Technology Research Institute of the Aston University on an international research cooperation project for 2 years, under the research topic “multi-core fibre passive and active devices: 3D shape sensors and laser sources”. The amount granted is about 220,000 Euros (about 1.65 million yuan), with a subsidizing period of 24 months. According to statistics, the global subsidy rate is about 15% and only a few applicants get approved.

 

Researcher Yin Guolu started to work for the School of OptoElectronic Engineering in December 2016. He has been mainly engaged in research of optical fiber devices and sensing technologies. He has directed more than 10 projects, including general projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, youth fund granted by the National Natural Science Foundation, the earmarked fund for research of basic sciences and cutting-edge technologies of Chongqing, the special subsidy granted by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Foundation for Key Lab of National Defense Science and Technology, earmarked fund for cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary research as part of the operation expense for basic scientific research in colleges and universities allocated by the central government. In recent years, he has published more than 40 academic papers in well-known international journals on optics such as Optics Letters, Optics Express, and Journal of Lightwave Technology, with more than 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, and H index of 19; Yin has written 7 articles for Fiber Laser, an English monograph, upon invitation; and has won 1 second prize for natural science of Chongqing (ranking the 3rd place); furthermore, he has submitted applications for 6 patents for invention of China, and 4 were granted, and has obtained software copyright for 4 pieces of software.

 

Researcher Yin Guolu is now a member of the Research Group of Fiber Photonic Devices and Systems (http://oft.coe.cqu.edu.cn/) led by Professor Zhu Tao, a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. The Research Group has made a series of important achievements in 3 research areas, namely, optical maser and regulation technique, intelligent optical fiber sensing technology and optical-fiber and photon functional devices. Researcher Yin is an academic backbone of the Research Group. His being granted the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships is another remarkable achievement made by the Research Group in nurturing of young teachers after Associate Professor Gao Lei was included in the First “Post-doctoral Innovation Talent Support Program” of China and Dr. Huang Ligang was included in the 2017 “Post-doctoral Innovation Talent Support Program of Chongqing”.