Prof. DU Jiangfeng from International Center for Quantum Design of Functional Materials (ICQD) at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale was elected as new member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), according to the official announcement of CAS membership election on Dec 7th, 2015.

Prof. Du Jiangfeng, who is now a physicist, was born in 1969 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He was enrolled to School of the Gifted Young USTC in 1985 and got his bachelor degree, master and PhD here. He is a professor now and the executive director of School of Physical Sciences. He is also a Changjiang Professor, a winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, and head for Big Science Initiate Program.

Prof. Du mainly focuses on spin based quantum computation and simulation, quantum metrology, and related quantum physics. He has contributed a lot to this field and now acts as principle investigator in solid-state quantum computation research based on quantum control of spins program and development of single-spin based multi-frequency magnetic resonance spectrometer program.

Prof. DU’s research achievements have received the second prize of 2012 National Natural Science Award, and Outstanding Achievements in Natural Science by the Ministry of Education of China (2011). So far he has published more than 130 scientific papers in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters and other renowned international journals.