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. F. Javier
García de Abajo

Instituto de Óptica - CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Prof. García de Abajo is one of the world's foremost authorities on the theory and modelling of photonic nanostructures. He obtained BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of the Basque Country, Spain before joining the faculty there as an Associate Professor in 1993. From 1997 to 2000 he was a visiting Professor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. Since 2000 he has worked for the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain, being appointed as a Research Professor with the Instituto de Óptica, Madrid in 2008. Prof. García de Abajo is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. His current research interests are plasmons in nanoparticles, the optical response of patterned surfaces, and the interaction of swift electrons with nanostructured materials.

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.