Committees

The people behind META 2027

META 2027 is led by its General Co-Chairs and supported by an international Scientific Advisory Committee and Technical Program Committee.

Leadership

General Co-Chairs

Khaled Mnaymneh

Khaled Mnaymneh

National Research Council
Canada

Sofiane Haffouz

Sofiane Haffouz

National Research Council
Canada

Said Zouhdi

Said Zouhdi

Université Paris-Saclay
France

Scientific Advisory Committee

Guiding the scientific vision

The Scientific Advisory Committee brings together internationally recognised researchers representing the breadth of the META scientific community.

Andrea Alù
CUNY · USA
Harry Atwater
Caltech · USA
Alexandra Boltasseva
Purdue University · USA
Federico Capasso
Harvard University · USA
Che Ting Chan
HKUST · China
Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania · USA
Ortwin Hess
Trinity College Dublin · Ireland
Yuri Kivshar
Australian National University · Australia
Susumu Noda
Kyoto University · Japan
Dorota A. Pawlak
Ensemble3 · Poland
Vladimir Shalaev
Purdue University · USA
David R. Smith
Duke University · USA
Nikolay Zheludev
University of Southampton · UK

Committee shown as of META 2026 — the META 2027 composition will be confirmed with the Call for Papers.

Technical Program Committee

Evaluating the science

The Technical Program Committee contributes to the scientific evaluation of submissions and to the development and balance of the conference programme.

Guillermo Acuna
University of Fribourg · Switzerland
Pierre-Michel Adam
University of Technology of Troyes · France
Ashod Aradian
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal – CNRS · France
Antonio Ambrosio
CNST@POLIMI · Italy
Benfeng Bai
Tsinghua University · China
Maha Ben Rhouma
Gustave Eiffel University · France
Henri Benisty
Institut d'Optique · France
Jamal Berakdar
Martin-Luther University · Germany
Svetlana Boriskina
MIT · USA
Debashis Chanda
University of Central Florida · USA
Pai-Yen Chen
University of Illinois Chicago · USA
Johan Christensen
CSIC Madrid · Spain
Sébastien Cueff
CNRS – INL · France
Alfredo De Rossi
Thales Research · France
Alexander F. Dmitriev
University of Gothenburg · Sweden
Monika Fleischer
Eberhard Karls University · Germany
Andrea Fratalocchi
KAUST · Saudi Arabia
Denis Garoli
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia · Italy
Li Ge
CUNY · USA
Tommaso Giovannini
University of Rome Tor Vergata · Italy
Alexander Govorov
Ohio University · USA
Tatjana Gric
Vilnius Tech · Lithuania
Jean-Philippe Groby
LAUM – CNRS · France
Yael Gutierrez
University of Cantabria · Spain
Han Htoon
CINT-LANL · USA
Kotaro Kajikawa
Institute of Science Tokyo · Japan
Eugene Kamenetskii
Ben Gurion University · Israel
Howard (Ho Wai) Lee
UC Irvine · USA
Jensen Li
HKUST · China
Qiang Li
Zhejiang University · China
Yang Li
Tsinghua University · China
Anatole Lupu
Paris-Saclay University · France
Konstantinos Makris
University of Crete & IESL-FORTH · Greece
Martin McCall
Imperial College London · UK
Marco Miniaci
IEMN – CNRS · France
Khaled Mnaymneh
National Research Council · Canada
Taiichi Otsuji
Tohoku University · Japan
Willie Padilla
Duke University · USA
Dorota Pawlak
ITME · Poland
Lucia Petti
Institute of Applied Sciences · Italy
Virginie Ponsinet
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal · France
Giorgio Quaranta
SUSS MicroOptics · Switzerland
Junsuk Rho
POSTECH · Korea
Junichi Takahara
Osaka University · Japan
Takuo Tanaka
RIKEN · Japan
Hong Wei
Institute of Physics CAS · China
Weiren Zhu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · China
Arcady Zhukov
University of the Basque Country · Spain

Committee shown as of META 2026 — the META 2027 composition will be confirmed with the Call for Papers.

Local Organizing Committee

On the ground in Niagara Falls

The META 2027 Local Organizing Committee will support the organisation of the conference in Niagara Falls. To be announced with the Call for Papers.