2021
The Sydney OSA Local Section new seminar series on Photonics and Photovoltaics!
Dr Ren participated in the OSA Local Section Seminar plan and organisation.
Our first seminar series will be online only on 23rd Sep. 2021, 2pm – 3 pm (AEST). For those interested in solar cells, please register here on the left.
Dr Ren won a prestigious ARC DECRA!
Dr Ren won a prestigious DECRA fellowship with funding of $434,000.
This project will develop new 3D metafibre optics for advanced imaging.
A PhD position with full scholarship will be announced in 2022.


Dr Ren was invited to speak at the SPIE Photonics West in January 2022.
Topic 1: Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XV.
Topic 2: Complex Light and Optical Forces XVI.

Dr Ren was invited to contribute to the JOPT Emerging Leaders 2022 collection.
Special issue on emerging leaders 2022.

Dr Ren’s review contribution to the community.
Dr Ren has reviewed 12 manuscripts in 2021, some fun during the NSW lockdown, see Publons for specific contributions.

The Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) is back for 2021.
Dr Ren is a conference committee member.

Welcome to join our OSA Local Section in Sydney. Follow us on Twitter@SydneyLocalOSA.
Dr Ren was selected as the new Secretary for the Local Section in 2021.

Dr Ren delivered a keynote talk at the TMOS (ARC Centre of Excellence) ECR/Student Conference.

Organised by Prof. Junsuk Rho at POSTECH in Korea.
Dr Ren was invited to give a talk at the Korea-Australia Nanophotonics Remote Lectureship.

Dr Ren edited two Research Topics (call for submissions until 2022):


Dr Ren was awarded a MQRF at Macqurie University, with a total funding of $386,000.
This funding will be used to further explore multi-dimensional holography for the future exciting journey to Big Data Photonics!














