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Personal profile
Biography
I am a DECRA Fellow and lead the Structured Nanophotonics Group at Monash. My nanophotonics research exploits the full potential and multi-dimensional nature of light and its controlled light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. My motivation is driven by fascinating optical physics and photonic applications across many topical areas in optics-related fields. I have avaialble PhD and Honours projects, please reach out if you are interested in our nanophotonics research - a fun field in applied physics.
As Chief Investigator, I have secured over $2M in research funding in the past five years, including 2024 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow Ambassador, 2024 Perkins Collaboration Research Award - Walk for Women's Cancer, 2023 Perkins ECR Awards, Monash Uplift Grants (2022, 2024), DECRA Fellowship, Discovery Project, Macquarie University Research Fellowship, and Humboldt Research Fellowship.
I am an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems. I have published more than 30 first- and corresponding-authored papers in top journals such as Science, Science Advances, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Advanced Materials. I have received prestigious awards, including the 2024 SPIE Best Paper Award, the 2023 Rising Stars of Light, the 2022 Emerging Leaders (Journal of Optics), the 2022 ANZOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize, and the 2017 Victoria Fellowship. I have been invited to speak at over 30 major international conferences and serve as Chair of the OPTICA (leading society in optics and photonics) Photonic Metamaterials Technical Group.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Optics, PhD, Nanophotonics manipulation of angular momentum of light for information optics, Swinburne University of Technology
20 Mar 2013 → 17 Feb 2017
Award Date: 17 Feb 2017
External positions
Chair of the Photonic Metamaterials Technical Group at OPTICA (formly OSA), Optica LLC
1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2026
Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
1 Jun 2022 → 31 May 2027
Associated Investigator, The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
1 Jan 2022 → 31 Dec 2023
Research area keywords
- Nanophotonics
- Structured light
- Integrated photonics
- Quantum optics
- Holographic display
- Optical sensing
- Fibre optics
- Meta-optics
- Plasmonics
- Orbital angular momentum
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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All-on-chip twisted light modulator for ultrahigh-capacity data processing
Ren, H., Maier, S., Dawes, J. M. & Omatsu, T.
10/11/22 → 9/11/25
Project: Research
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An achromatic metafiber for focusing and imaging across the entire telecommunication range
Ren, H., Jang, J., Li, C., Aigner, A., Plidschun, M., Kim, J., Rho, J., Schmidt, M. A. & Maier, S. A., 19 Jul 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 10 p., 4183.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access100 Citations (Scopus) -
Nanophotonic Materials for Twisted-Light Manipulation
Ren, H. & Maier, S. A., Aug 2023, In: Advanced Materials. 35, 34, 16 p., 2106692.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access31 Citations (Scopus) -
Optical Metasurfaces for Energy Conversion
Cortés, E., Wendisch, F. J., Sortino, L., Mancini, A., Ezendam, S., Saris, S., De S. Menezes, L., Tittl, A., Ren, H. & Maier, S. A., 21 Jun 2022, In: Chemical Reviews. 122, 19, p. 15082–15176 95 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
76 Citations (Scopus) -
Metasurface Measuring Twisted Light in Turbulence
Dinter, T., Li, C., Kühner, L., Weber, T., Tittl, A., Maier, S. A., Dawes, J. M. & Ren, H., 21 Sept 2022, In: ACS Photonics. 9, 9, p. 3043-3051 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Radial bound states in the continuum for polarization-invariant nanophotonics
Kühner, L., Sortino, L., Berté, R., Wang, J., Ren, H., Maier, S. A., Kivshar, Y. & Tittl, A., Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 8 p., 4992.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access53 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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2016 Chinese Government Prize for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
Ren, Haoran (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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The Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize
Ren, Haoran (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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APL Photonics (Journal)
Haoran Ren (Editorial board member)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Nature (Journal)
Haoran Ren (Peer reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Nature Photonics (Journal)
Haoran Ren (Peer reviewer)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Science Advances (Journal)
Haoran Ren (Peer reviewer)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Nature Electronics (Journal)
Haoran Ren (Peer reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility