Nader EnghetaProfessor

He is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with affiliation in the departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. After spending one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Caltech and four years as a Senior Research Scientist at Kaman Sciences Corporation's Dikewood Division, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences. He was the graduate group chair of electrical engineering from 1993 to 1997. Selected as one of the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006 for developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits, he is a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and of the SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold medal from URSI (International Union of Radio Science), the 2013 Inaugural SINA award in engineering, 2013 Benjamin Franklin Key award, the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair, and several teaching awards. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2002–2007), of the IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation (1996–2001), and Radio Science (1991–1996). He was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, and of Metamaterials.