Pengfei Wang

Pengfei Wang is a Professor at the College of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China. He received his PhD degree of Optical Engineering from Technological University Dublin (TUD), Ireland, in Nov. 2008. He worked for the European Space Agency at the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems, Italian National Research Council, as a Research Associate from May 2003 to July 2004. He joined the Photonics Research Centre (PRC) of TUD in Jan. 2009 as an Irish Government “EMPOWER” Postdoctoral Researcher. From 2010 to 2013, he worked at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton United Kingdom, funded by the prestigious EU Marie Curie Research Fellowship. He was then appointed as a Senior Research Fellow (Tenured) at the PRC of TUD in 2013. From Sep. 2015, he has been working at the Advanced Laser Lab, Harbin Engineering University of China, as the founder and distinguished professor.

His research interests include novel optical glass materials, fiber optic sensors, fiber lasers, computational photonics (modelling, simulation and optimization). He has authored and co-authored over 300 papers in international academic journals and international conferences with over 4000 citations and a Google H-index of 32 to date. He is holding an OSA Senior membership and a Marie Curie life-time membership.

For JLT he is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Optical fiber sensors
• Fiber lasers
• Optical glass materials