Dr. Qiwen Zhan is Chair Professor at the Westlake University, Chair Professor in Nanophotonics at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) and founder of the Center for Complex Optical FieldS and Meta-Optics Structures (COSMOS). He also holds joint appointment with Zhangjiang Laboratory, China, as well as affiliate membership with the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2) at the Hiroshima University, Japan. He received a B.S. in Physics (optoelectronic) from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2002. From 2002 to 2020. he held tenured faculty position (Assistant Professor in 2002, Associate Professor in 2008, and Full Professor in 2012) in the Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics at the University of Dayton, USA. He established the Fraunhofer Research Center at the University Dayton and served as the founding director till 2020. Currently, he serves as Deputy Editor for Optics Express, Associate Editor for Science Bulletin, Advisory Editor-in-Chief for Light Manipulation and Applications, Advisory Deputy Editor for PhotoniX, Associate Editor for Advanced Photonics, Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports. Prof. Zhan is elected Senior Member of the lEEE, Fellow of OPTICA (formerly OSA, 2013), and Fellow of the SPIE (2012).