Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his BS degree from the University of Tehran and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. His current research activities span a broad range of areas, including optics, metamaterials, electrodynamics, microwaves, photonics, nano-optics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves. He has received several awards for his research including the 2023Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from the Franklin Institute, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected to Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) as a foreign member, the 2023 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK), the 2020 Max Born Award from the OPTICA (formerly Optical Society), the 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award, the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2018 IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, the2022 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture at MIT, the 2015 SPIE Gold Medal, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Canadian Academy of Engineering as an International Fellow, the Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI),the IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Award from DoD, the Wheatstone Lecture in King’s College London, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also received several teaching awards, including the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award, the W. M. Keck Foundation's Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award for distinguished teaching. He is a Fellow of nine international scientific and technical organizations, i.e.,IEEE, OPTICA, American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), URSI, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Institute of Physics (IOP-UK) and US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He received honorary doctoral degrees from Aalto University in Finland in 2016, the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2016, and Ukraine’s National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 2017.