Founder · META & AES
Saïd Zouhdi
Professor, Université Paris-Saclay (France)
Founder & General Chair, META & AES Conferences
AES 2027 → Athens
The 13th edition meets at the War Museum of Athens, 16–19 March 2027. Call for Papers is open — submission deadline 20 January 2027.
READ MORE →META 2027 → Niagara Falls
The 17th edition heads to Canada, 13–16 July 2027. Call for Papers is open — submission deadline 12 February 2027.
READ MORE →META 2026, Dublin — a record edition
900+ papers at Trinity College Dublin, with plenary lectures by Baumberg, Boltasseva, Capasso, Grange and Peng.
READ MORE →APL Quantum – META Best Paper Award
Awarded in Dublin with AIP Publishing, distinguishing outstanding quantum photonics.
READ MORE →2008 → 2027
Two decades, one continuous line
Seventeen editions of META and thirteen of AES across four continents — each one a point on the same spectrum: bringing the world’s metamaterials, photonics and electromagnetics community together.
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Initiatives
The ecosystem
META Conference
Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals & Plasmonics. A major international meeting point for the metamaterials, photonics and plasmonics community — 17 editions, 10,000+ researchers, 50+ countries.
Conference · since 2012AES Conference
Antennas & Electromagnetic Systems. An international meeting point for antennas, electromagnetics, metamaterials and photonics — 12 editions since 2012, from Paris to Catania, with proceedings indexed in Scopus (ISSN 2491-2417).
META Community
The scientific ecosystem connecting these initiatives: conferences, publishing, exchange — and the connections that outlast them. The community's YouTube channel archives landmark plenary lectures from past editions — Pendry, Alù, Engheta, Atwater and more — freely available to all.
Moments
From the stage
Scenes from recent META and AES editions — and landmark plenary lectures from the META archive.
More scenes from Dublin and Catania, and every landmark plenary from the META archive:
MORE MOMENTS ON LINKEDIN → AES 2026 PHOTO GALLERY → ALL PLENARIES ON YOUTUBE →Research & Expertise
Selected work
Advances in Electromagnetics of Complex Media and Metamaterials
Zouhdi, Sihvola & Arsalane (Eds.) · Kluwer / NATO Science Series · 2002 — the first book to feature “metamaterials” in its title
Metamaterials and Plasmonics: Fundamentals, Modelling, Applications
Springer / NATO (Eds.) · 2008
Chiral nihility effects on energy flow in chiral materials
2007
Homogenization of 3-D periodic bianisotropic metamaterials
2006
Routes to left-handed materials by magnetoelectric couplings
2007
Contact
Let’s connect.
Scientific collaborations, invited lectures and international initiatives.