2026 Archive
Federico Capasso
Harvard University · USA
From Classical to Quantum Metasurfaces for Multiphoton Interferometry
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META 2027 · Niagara Falls
Plenary Speakers
We are delighted to announce the first confirmed plenary speakers of META 2027. Further plenary and keynote speakers will be announced as the program develops.
Plenary Speaker
Nathalie Picqué
Max Born Institute
Germany
Nathalie Picqué is Director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy and Professor of Physics at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. With her team, she explores new insights in optical and molecular fundamental physics using advanced tools of laser science, and she is a pioneer of broadband interferometry with optical frequency combs. An Optica Fellow, she has received numerous awards, including the 2024 William F. Meggers Award of Optica.
Plenary Speaker
Junsuk Rho
POSTECH
Korea
Plenary lecture
“Sustainable manufacturing of optical metasurfaces with engineered optical materials”
Junsuk Rho is the Yeonsan Endowed Chair Professor and Mu-Eun-Jae Endowed Chair Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, with appointments in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. He received his B.S. from Seoul National University, his M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, before working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a Ugo Fano Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. He has published more than 380 journal papers; his honors include the Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher recognition (2023, 2024) and the 2024 ACS Nano Lectureship.
Plenary Speaker
Nikolay Zheludev
University of Southampton, UK
& Texas A&M University, USA
Nikolay Zheludev’s research interests are in nanophotonics and metamaterials. He is Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, UK and Hagler Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) and a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the European Physical Society, the Optical Society (OSA) and the Institute of Physics (London). His awards include the Michael Faraday Gold Medal, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize, the Thomas Young Medal, and the President of Singapore Science and Technology Award.