In the future, fundamental discoveries in metamaterial science will enable technologies impossible to achieve using commonly available materials. Many of these innovations are already coming to market, from flat lenses to running-shoe soles, but most metamaterial science remains to be exploited.
The Horizon Scanning Forum works to identify emerging concepts and disruptive opportunities in metamaterial science and engineering. It bridges all domains of metamaterials design, from electromagnetics to mechanics and acoustics, providing a cross-disciplinary ground for metamaterial innovation.
The Forum focuses on finding challenges for developing new metamaterial technology that can be addressed though suitable UK Metamaterials Network activities. These activities include the development of new Special Interest Groups, and workshops focused on translating fundamental science into technological innovation and on bringing researchers together from across different subdomains.
Lead(s)
Alex Powell
University of Exeter
Anton Souslov
University of Bath
There are currently 281 Horizon Scanning and Disruptive Concepts members in our Expert Database
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English Institute of Sport
Andy Alderson
Sheffield Hallam University
Arseny Alexeev
WaveOptics (Snap Inc.)
AHMAD ALMAMO
Zhejiang University
Frazer Anderson
OIPT
Aakash Bansal
Loughborough University
Milo Baraclough
DSTL
THOMAS BASSETT
MBDA UK
Brian Bilenberg
NIL Technology ApS
Mahdi Bodaghi
Nottingham Trent University
Jean-Sebastien Bouillard
University of Hull
Celia Butler
Synopsys
Darren Cadman
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
Qiong Cai
University of Surrey
Toby Campbell
BAE Systems
Yameng Cao
National Physical Laboratory
Fernando Castro
National Physical Laboratory
(Sam) Yun Fu Chan
CPI
Justin Chan
University of Huddersfield
Xianzhong Chen
Heriot-Watt University
Cheng-Hung Chi
Zepler Institute - University of Southampton
Andrew Comley
AWE
Robert Crookes
Lucideon
Enrique Cuan-Urquizo
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Mark Cunningham
University of Glasgow - CDT PIADS
Claire Dancer
University of Warwick
Bryn Davies
Imperial College London
Iman Dayyani
Cranfield University
Alex Dell
University of Sheffield
Bailin Deng
Cardiff University
Hongbiao Dong
University of Leicester
Viktor Doychinov
University of Bradford
Kevin Doyle
Squadron Six Aerospace Ltd.
Olly Duncan
Manchester Metropolitan University
Otman El mrabet
Abdelmalek Essaâdi university
Ken Evans
University of Exeter
Aluna Everitt
University of Oxford
Vassili Fedotov
University of Southampton
Alexandros FERESIDIS
University of Birmingham
Joao Ferreira
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
Chris Finlayson
Aberystwyth University
Antonio Elia Forte
King's college london
Pravinkumar Ghodake
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Mark Gibbons
Target Carbon Limited
Nicholas Grant
University of Warwick
Jillian Henderson
Wave Energy Scotland
Andrew Henning
University of Huddersfield
Pete Hobson
QinetiQ
Willem Jellema
SRON and Delft University of Technology
Noé Jiménez
Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
James Johnstone
Advanced Material Development
Piotr Marek Kaminski
Airbus, Central Research and Technology
Affar Karimullah
University of Glasgow
Zafer Kazanci
Queen's University Belfast, UK
JOSEPH KENDRICK
University of Huddersfield
Mitchell Kenney
University of Nottingham
Siamak Khosroshahi
Queen Mary University of London
Samson Lai Iskandar
Thales Solutions Asia
Kollmannsperger Lea
Fraunhofer IZFP
Hak Joo Lee
Center for Advanced Meta-Materials
Gemma Leslie
Manchester Metropolitan University
Rosa Letizia
Lancaster University
Guanchen Li
University of Glasgow
Bert Liu
Cardiff University
Joel Loh
University of Toronto
Stefan Maier
Imperial College London
John Marsh
University of Glasgow
Haydn Martin
University of Huddersfield
Nina Meinzer
Nature Physics
James Monks
'Bangor University' and 'Excelitas'
Kelly Morrison
Loughborough University
Mostafa Mousa
King's College London
Susmita Naskar
University of Southampton
Miguel Navarro-Cía
University of Birmingham
Timothy O'Farrell
University of Sheffield
mojan omidvar
Queen Mary university of london
Stephanie Owens
Plymouth College of Art
Victor Pacheco-Peña
School of Mathematics Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University
Joseph Palmer
University of Sheffield AMRC
Daniel Paterson
University of Leeds
Stephan Paul
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Timothy Pelham
University of Bristol
Sendy Phang
University of Nottingham
Eric Plum
University of Southampton
Simon Pope
University of Sheffield
Giorgio Quaranta
SUSS MicroOptics SA
Mostafa Ranjbar
University of Strathclyde
G Ren
Univeristy of Hertfordshire
Joseph Riley
Newcastle university
Nick Rimmer
Telegraph Materials
Francisco Rodriguez-Fortuno
King's College London
Diane Roth
King's College London
Roy Sambles
University of Exeter
Matteo Seita
University of Cambridge
Nityanand Sharma
University of Huddersfield
Elnaz Shokati
University of Bristol
Robert Simpson
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Alf Smith
Centre for Process Innovation
Anton Souslov
University of Bath
Ravi Sundaram
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
Wei Tan
Queen Mary University of London
Hamdi Torun
Northumbria University
Masood Ur Rehman
University of Glasgow
Benjamin Vial
Queen Mary University of London
Silvia Vignolini
University of Cambrdige
Ruth Voisey
Smith Institute
Mahmoud Wagih
University of Glasgow
Han Wang
University of Nottingham
Bernard Watts
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Will Whittow
Loughborough University
Roger Wise
Ultrawise innovation Ltd
Rachel Won
Nature Photonics
Laura Wynne
University of St Andrews
Pengqian Yang
University of Huddersfield
Okan Yurduseven
Queen's University Belfast
Dmitry Zelenchuk
Queen's University of Belfast
Qicheng Zhang
Swansea University
Han Zhang
Queen Mary University of London
Yi Zheng
City University of Hong Kong
Jiafeng Zhou
University of Liverpool
Frank Zhou
university of Warwick