Advisory Panel

Prof. Nader Engheta
[Panel Chair]

H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, and Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Prof. Engheta is one of the most influential international experts in the field of Metamaterials. He is well known for his pioneering work on electromagnetic and optical metamaterials, optical nanocircuitry, and cloaking, and was selected as one of the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology 2006 for developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits. Prof. Engheta is a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium Medallist, and a Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Optical Society of America (OSA). He was the recipient of the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, and the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair.

Prof. Will Stewart

Consultant

A recently elected fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Prof. Will Stewart was previously Chief Scientist at Marconi. His wide-ranging research interests extend from optical fibre communications and optoelectronics to the application of various optical, semiconductor and acoustic technologies to medicine, particle physics and industrial processes.

Prof. John Boland

Director, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), and Professor of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Prof. John Boland is as an internationally recognized figure and outstanding expert in the fields of nanoscience and in nanoscale materials. He received a BSc degree in chemistry from University College Dublin and a PhD in chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he was an IBM graduate fellow and recipient of the Newby-McKoy graduate research award. From 1984 to 1994 Prof Boland was a member of the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (New York). In 1994 he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was appointed the J. J. Hermans Chair Professor of Chemistry and Applied and Materials Science. In 2002 Prof Boland moved to the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, and was appointed Director of CRANN in 2004.

Prof. Olivier Martin

Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

Prof. Martin is a world leader in the field of electromagnetic field interactions with low dimension systems, especially in the optical regime. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) before joining the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1989. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a research staff member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ) and spent eighteen months as an invited scientist at the University of California in San Diego. In 1997 and 2001 respectively he received a Lecturer Fellowship and a Professorship Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, becoming Professor of Nano-Optics at ETHZ. In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the EPFL, where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory.