It was founded by Prof Alastair Hibbins and Dr Anja Roeding from the University of Exeter in 2019/2020 and started as a jointly funded endeavour between the EPSRC UK Metamaterials Network grant (EP/V002198/1), the UK’s Defence and Security Laboratory (Dstl) and the KTN Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network in March 2021.
At present, the Network is being led by Prof Alastair Hibbins (University of Exeter) and Dr Claire Dancer (Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick) as academic investigators, together with Dr Anja Roeding as lead of the network operations and a multi-institutional leadership team.
The Network activities are steered by a leadership team consisting of the respective award leads and representatives from academia and industry who lead on the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Forums.
The SIGs are dedicated to foster relationships around dedicated scientific areas within and across academia, industry, governmental agencies etc, while the Forums provide a platform for cross-SIG interactions for activities targeted at Early Career development, Outreach, Industry push & pull, and Horizon Scanning (disruptive concepts; blue skies research).
Network Leadership Team
Qammer Abbasi
University of Glasgow
Andrew Alderson
Sheffield Hallam University
Arseny Alexeev
WaveOptics / Snap Inc.
Tom Allen
Manchester Metropolitan University
Akram Alomainy
Queen Mary University London
Milo Baraclough
Dstl
Thomas Bassett
MBDA Systems
Gregory Chaplain
University of Exeter
Claire Dancer
University of Warwick
Bryn Davies
Imperial College London
Oliver Duncan
Manchester Metropolitan University
Andrea di Falco
University of St Andrews
Nicholas Grant
University of Warwick
Stephen Henthorn
University of Sheffield
Alastair Hibbins
University of Exeter
Jisun Im
University of Warwick
Mitchell Kenney
University of Nottingham
Owen Lozman
M.Ventures | Merck
Gianluca Memoli
University of Sussex
David Newman
University of Exeter
Rupert Oulton
Imperial College London
Simon Pope
University of Sheffield
Alex Powell
University of Exeter
Diane Roth
King's College London
Sebastian Schulz
University of St Andrews
Katie Shanks
University of Exeter
Anton Souslov
University of Bath
Stefan Szyniszewski
Durham University
Chris Tuck
University of Nottingham
Jamie Williams
National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Ian Youngs
Dstl