Editor-in-Chief of Photonics, Professor Nelson Tansu, Appointed Head of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide
We are pleased to announce that Professor Nelson Tansu, the Editor-in-Chief of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732; CODEN: PHOTC5; IF 2.140; www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics), has been appointed as the new Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Professor in Quantum Electronics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Professor Nelson Tansu is a US-based engineering scientist and inventor with an 18-year career in research excellence. Professor Tansu received his BS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the United States, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Professor Tansu is currently the Director of the Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, and the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. He is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2018).
Tansu has 18 US patents and has made important advances to the invention and innovation, fundamental sciences, and device technologies of semiconductors for energy efficiency and photonics. His research has been funded (with a total of US$13.39 million) by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Education (DoED), Department of Defense (DOD), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US. He has authored more than 155 refereed journals and 310 conference publications, and his work has been cited more than 8600 times.
Let us congratulate Professor Nelson Tansu, who will take up his new post at the University of Adelaide in January 2021. The School of EEE at the University of Adelaide is ranked 42nd in the world according to the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and 11th in the world in the 2021 US News and World Reports Best Global Universities Subject Ranking. We look forward to his continued success at the University of Adelaide.
The full news release by the University of Adelaide is available in the link below.