Biography: Haiyan Ou received the BSc and MSc from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 1994 and 1997 respectively and PhD degree in semiconductor devices and microelectronics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 2000. From 2000, she has joined Technical University of Denmark, where she was promoted as associate professor in 2005. She had been a 3-months JSPS (Japanese Society for Promotion of Science) fellow in Nobel prize winner Prof. Akasaki’s group at Meijo Univeristy (2011). She was the co-organizer of the symposium G at E-MRS 2013 and symposium O at E-MRS 2017, the LED symposium in 2014 and Si-based light emission devices and lasers session in 2019 at PIERS, and visible light communication workshop at CLEO-PR in 2018. She had served as the editor board member for Scientific Reports from 2015 to 2021.  Her scientific interest is in the areas of materials and devices for optical communication, photovoltaics, and light emitting. During the past decade, she has dedicated to nanophotonic devices basing on the emerging wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN, SiC, LiNbO₃) and she has been promoted as a group leader of wide bandgap semiconductor photonics since 2021. She has published more than 270 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and 3 books/chapters. She has given more than 20 invited talks at prestigious international conferences, such as ICSCRM 2023, CIOP 2023, MNE 2021, E-MRS 2019 etc. She is the founder of Light Extraction ApS, thanks to the investment from one of the Denmark’s biggest pre-seed capitals. She is also the winner of the 2013 strategic research award for research with great innovation potential from the Danish council for strategic research. She is the pioneer of applying SiC in photonics and has pushed this field through a large amount of national and European grants. Currently, she is coordinating European Union's Horizon 2020 FET Open project (SiComb, No. 899679) where the best European players in SiC growth, device nanofabrication and device’s system application meet, create ground-breaking results and target far-reaching impact on the society.