Lan Fu received MSc degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and PhD degree from the Australia National University in 2001. Lan Fu is currently a Professor  at the Dept. of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, ANU. Prof. Lan Fu has published over 170 journal/conference papers, two book chapters and holds two US patents. Prof. Lan Fu was the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Photonic Society Graduate Student Fellowship (2000), Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002),  ARF/QEII Fellowship (2005) and Future Fellowship (2012). Prof. Lan Fu is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE/Photonics and EDS societies, and Nanotechnology Council of IEEE ACT Section.

Prof. Lan Fu’s main research interests include design, fabrication and integration of optoelectronic devices (LEDs, lasers and photodetectors) and high efficiency solar cells based on low dimensional III-V compound semiconductor structures including quantum wells, self-assembled quantum dots and nanowires grown by metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD).