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Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with primary affiliation in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering and secondary appointments in Physics & Astronomy, Materials Science & Engineering, and Bioengineering. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Caltech (1982) and BS from the University of Tehran (1978). His research focuses on metamaterials, nanophotonics, and fractional electrodynamics, with groundbreaking contributions to plasmonics and epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials. Engheta has been honored with the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2023), Isaac Newton Medal (2020), and numerous fellowships including IEEE (1996).
Education:
- BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran (1978)
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Caltech (1979)
- PhD in Electrical Engineering and Physics, Caltech (1982)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech (1983)
- Honorary Doctorates from Stuttgart, Aalto, and Kharkov Polytechnic (2016-2017)
Research interests include metamaterial-based optical circuits, graphene photonics, plasmonic cloaking, and bio-inspired polarization imaging. His work bridges fundamental physics and applied engineering, with applications in nanoscale device design and computational metamaterial systems. Recent projects explore photonic doping and inverse-designed metastructures for equation-solving.
Awards include teaching excellence (W. M. Keck Award, 1995) and over 54,000 citations (h-index 107). His group operates at UPenn’s Levine and Moore buildings, collaborating globally on wave-matter interaction studies.
