Nader Engheta#
| Membership Number: | 6717 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://engheta.seas.upenn.edu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3219-9520 |
| Twitter: | @NaderEngheta |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/nader.engheta |
| Linkedin: | http://www.linkedin.com/in/naderengheta |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering
- 1995 - present Full Professor (primary appointment) Dept. Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 2012 - present Full Professor (secondary appointment): Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013 - present Full Professor (secondary appointment): Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 2005 - present Full Professor (secondary appointment): Dept. Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
- March 1998-May 1998 (Sabbatical): Visiting Professor under Fulbright Naples Chair Award, Universita di Napoli, Napoli, Italia
- 1990 - 1995 Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 1993 - 1997 EE Graduate Group Chair, University of Pennsylvania
- 1987 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 1983 - 1987 Senior Research Scientist, Kaman Sciences Corporation's Dikewood Division, Santa Monica, California, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Electromagnetics/Optics/nanophotonics/plasmonics
- Optical metatronics and modularized photonics
- Fractional paradigm in electrodynamics
- Metamaterials
- Bio-inspired polarization imaging
- Omega and chiral media
- Plasmonic cloaking
- Near-zero-index photonics
- Graphene photonics
- Photonic doping
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, from Franklin Institute
- 2023 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2023 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2022 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture, Research Lab Electronics, MIT (April 2022)
- 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, from Institute of Physics (UK) (October 2020)
- 2020 Max Born Award, from Optical Society (OSA) (March 2020)
- 2019 Elected to Canadian Academy of Engineering, International Fellow (June 2019)
- 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the Ellis Island Honors Society (May 2019)
- 2018 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from IEEE Nanotechnology Council (Oct 2018)
- 2017 Honorary Doctoral Degree from Ukraine’a National Technical University Kharkov Polytechnic Inst.
- 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award from IEEE Photonics Society (Oct 2017)
- 2016 Honorary Doctorate from University of Stuttgart, Germany (November 18, 2016)
- 2016 Honorary Doctorate in Technology from Aalto University in Finland (October 7, 2016)
- 2015 Elected to US National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
- 2015 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow (a.k.a. NSSEFF) Award from US Department of Defense
- 2015 SPIE Gold Medal (2015)
- 2014 Balthasar Van der Pole Gold Medal from International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (2014)
- 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2012) (IEEE Technical Field Award)
- Guggenheim Fellowship award, 1999
- Fellow of: Institute of Physics (IOP) UK (2020), URSI (Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale) (2017); Materials Research Society (MRS) (2015); SPIE-International Society for Optics and Photonics (2011); American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010); American Physical Society (APS) (2008); Optical Society of America (OSA) (1999); IEEE (1996)
