Costas M. SoukoulisDistinguished Professor

He has approximately 447 publications, more than 178 invited lectures at national and international conferences, and about 173 invited talks at institutions. More than 30800 citations, an h-factor of 90 and 5 patents for PBGs and LHMs. Graduated 17 PhD students and co-advised 4 others. Has obtained several grants to support his research from DOE, NSF, DARPA, ONR, AFOR, NATO, EPRI, and European Community. He was the senior Editor (2002-2013) of the new Journal “Photonic Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications”, and editor of Optics Letters (2008-2011), and he is a member of editorial board of Physical Review Letters. Finally, a textbook entitled Wave Propagation: From Electrons to Photonic crystals and Left-handed Materials, was published by Princeton University Press 2008. Dr. Soukoulis made the 2014-2016 list of Highly Cited Researchers published by Thomson-Reuters. Prof. Soukoulis is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the ISU Outstanding Achievement in Research in 2001, and the senior Humboldt Research Award in 2002; he shared the Descartes award for collaborative research on left-handed materials in 2005; the first Frances M. Craig endowed chair in Physics at ISU in 2007; Honorary Doctorate from Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium in May 2011, and has been shared the 2013 James C. McGroddy Prize of APS for New Materials (“For the discovery of metamaterials”). He won the 2014 Max Born Award of the Optical Society Of America. Prof. Soukoulis has been a member or a chairman of various International Scientific Committees responsible for various International Conferences. He has served on several boards and committees for organizations, including NSF, DOE, and European Union.