Prof. Dr. Yangjian Cai received his PhD degree in physics from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005, and his second PhD degree in electromagnetic theory from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2006. He is currently the Dean of the School of Physics and Electronics at the Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China. In 2007, he was elected as a Humboldt Research Fellow, and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Max Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2018, he was a Full Professor at the Soochow University, Suzhou, China, and later joined Shandong Normal University. His research interests include optical coherence and polarization, atmospheric optics, beam propagation, and optical imaging. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the National 100 Excellent PhD Thesis Award of the Ministry of Education of China and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, China. In 2016, he was selected as a distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province, China, and in 2017, he was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for OSA journals.