Rate My Professor Alastair Hibbins

Professor Hibbins serves as Director of the University of Exeter's Centre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation (CMRI) and its associated doctoral training centre, Director of Business Engagement and Innovation for Physics and Astronomy and Natural Science, Deputy Head of Department, and Lead of the UK Metamaterials Network, which has over 800 members and received £2.5 million from EPSRC and funding from Dstl. He leads the EPSRC-funded Centre-to-Centre collaboration A-Meta and is Exeter lead for the EPSRC programme grant Meta-4D. His research centers on metamaterials, encompassing electromagnetic, acoustic, and elastic varieties, metasurfaces, plasmonics, and photonic structures, with applications in imaging, sensing, energy, and defence. He supervises multiple PhD projects and manages senior postdoctoral researchers, with much work funded by EPSRC, industry, and government. Professor Hibbins has authored over 200 publications, accumulating more than 5,900 citations, including key works such as 'One-way diffraction grating' (Journal of Applied Physics, 2006) and 'Ideal Weyl points and helicoid surface states in artificial photonic crystals' (Science, 2018). His contributions have positioned Exeter as a national hub for metamaterials research, fostering collaborations across academia, industry, and government.