12 Facts About Pan Jianwei

Pan Jianwei is a Chinese academic administrator and quantum physicist.

Pan Jianwei is a university administrator and professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Pan Jianwei is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China.

Pan Jianwei serves as one of the Vice Chairman of Jiusan Society.

Pan Jianwei was born in Dongyang, Jinhua, Zhejiang province in 1970.

Pan Jianwei received his PhD from the University of Vienna in Austria, where he studied and worked in the group led by Nobel prize winning physicist Anton Zeilinger.

In June 2017, Pan Jianwei's team used their quantum satellite to demonstrate entanglement with satellite-to-ground total summed lengths between 1600km and 2400km and entanglement distribution over 1200km between receiver stations.

In 2021, Pan Jianwei led a team which built quantum computers.

Pan Jianwei was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 at the age of 41, making him one of the youngest CAS academicians.

Pan Jianwei was then elected to the World Academy of Sciences in 2012 and won the International Quantum Communication Award in the same year.

Pan Jianwei was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.

In 2019, Pan Jianwei was appointed as lead editor of Physical Review Research.