Professor，Academician of Chinese Academy of Science

Tiejun Cui received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively.

In March 1993, he joined the Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Xidian University, and was promoted to an Associate Professor in November 1993. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Research Fellow with the Institut fur Hochstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. In July 1997, he joined the Center for Computational Electromagnetics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, first as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and then became a Research Scientist. In September 2001, he was a Cheung-Kong Professor with the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he is currently the Chief Professor and also the Founding Director of the Institute of Electromagnetic Space. He proposed the concepts of digital coding and programmable metamaterials, and realized their first prototypes, based on which he founded the new direction of information metamaterials, bridging the physical world and digital world. He is the first author of the books Metamaterials—Theory, Design, and Applications (Springer, November 2009), Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals (CRC Press, March 2016), and Information Metamaterials (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles, which have been cited by more than 43000 times (H-Factor 105; Google Scholar), and licensed over 150 patents. His research interests include metamaterials and computational electromagnetics.

Dr. Cui received a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in 1995, the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science in 1999, a Cheung Kong Professor by the Ministry of Education, China, in 2001, and the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2002. He received the Natural Science Award (first class) from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, and the National Natural Science Awards of China (second class, twice) in 2014 and 2018. His research has been selected as one of the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research “Optics in 2016” by Optics and Photonics News Magazine, 10 Breakthroughs of China Science in 2010, and many Research Highlights in a series of journals. His work has been widely reported by Nature News, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Discover, and New Scientists. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and a Guest Editor of Science China-Information Sciences, Science Bulletin, the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), and Research. He is the Chief Editor of Metamaterial Short Books in Cambridge University Press, the Editor of Materials Today Electronics, the Associate Editor of Research, and an Editorial Board Member of the National Science Review, eLight, PhotoniX, Advanced Optical Materials, Small Structure, and Advanced Photonics Research. He presented more than 100 keynote and plenary talks in academic conferences, symposiums, or workshops. From 2019 to 2021, he was ranked in the top 1% for the highly cited articles in the field of Physics by Clarivate Web of Science (Highly Cited Researcher).