Founder · META Community

Said Zouhdi

Professor, Université Paris-Saclay (France)
Founder & General Chair, META & AES Conferences

Said Zouhdi, Professor at Université Paris-Saclay
PROFESSOR · UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-SACLAY
Now

META 2027 → Niagara Falls

The 17th edition heads to Canada, 13–16 July 2027. Call for Papers opens autumn 2026.

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META 2026, Dublin — a record edition

900+ papers at Trinity College Dublin, with plenary lectures by Baumberg, Boltasseva, Capasso, Grange and Peng.

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APL Quantum – META Best Paper Award

Awarded in Dublin with AIP Publishing, distinguishing outstanding quantum photonics.

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2008 → 2027

Two decades, one continuous line

Seventeen editions of META across four continents — each one a point on the same spectrum: bringing the world’s metamaterials and photonics community together.

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Initiatives

The ecosystem

Conference · since 2008

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.

FOUNDER & GENERAL CHAIR · NEXT: NIAGARA FALLS 2027 Conference series

AES Conference

Advanced Electromagnetics & Sensing — the international series connecting electromagnetics research with emerging applications.

FOUNDER & GENERAL CHAIR
Ecosystem

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.

METACONFERENCES.ORG → YOUTUBE CHANNEL →
CONFERENCES · COMMUNITY · CONTINUITY

Moments

From the stage

Scenes from recent editions — and landmark plenary lectures from the META archive.

Packed plenary hall at META 2026, Trinity Business School, Dublin
The plenary hall — META 2026, DublinThe META community gathered in Dublin for the 2026 plenary sessions
Opening of META 2026 on stage — 'Welcome to Dublin' on the main screen
Welcome to Dublin — the openingFour days of science, new collaborations, new ideas
META 2026 registration desks at Trinity Business School
The community arrivesRegistration, Trinity Business School
APL Quantum META Best Paper Award — Kristina Malinowski, with AIP Publishing
APL Quantum – META Best Paper AwardKristina Malinowski (Caltech), with AIP Publishing

More scenes from Dublin, and every landmark plenary from the META archive:

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Research & Expertise

Selected work

METAMATERIALSPHOTONIC CRYSTALS PLASMONICSNANOPHOTONICS ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETICS

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

LANDMARK

Metamaterials and Plasmonics: Fundamentals, Modelling, Applications

Springer / NATO (Eds.) · 2008

BOOK

Chiral nihility effects on energy flow in chiral materials

2007

SELECTED PAPER

Homogenization of 3-D periodic bianisotropic metamaterials

2006

SELECTED PAPER

Routes to left-handed materials by magnetoelectric couplings

2007

SELECTED PAPER
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Contact

Let’s connect.

Scientific collaborations, invited lectures and international initiatives.

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