Jian-Wei Pan is a full professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. He is the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Fellow, the director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, and the president of the Chinese Association of Young Scientists And Technologists. The research of Prof. Jian-Wei Pan focuses on quantum information and quantum foundations. As one of pioneers in experimental quantum information science, he has accomplished a series of profound achievements, which has brought him worldwide fame. Prof. Pan has received numerous prizes/awards from various academic institutions, such as Fresnel Prize from the European Physical Society (2005), the Outstanding Scientist Prize from the Hong Kong Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation (2005), the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize from the CAS (2005), Beller’s Lectureship from the American Physical Society (2007), Quantum Communication Award from the International Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (2012), Science and Technology Achievement Prize from Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation (2013) , the first Prize of National Natural Sciences (2015) and so on.