Eleftheriades, George V.
Professor

Biography

George V. Eleftheriades (S’86–M’88–SM’02–F’06) earned a Diploma in Electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He received the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, ON, Canada, where he holds the Velma M. Rogers Graham Chair in Nano- and Micro-Structured Electromagnetic Materials. Previously (2005-2019) he held a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Microstructures and Nanostructured Metamaterials.​

He is a recognized international authority and pioneer in the area of metamaterials and metasurfaces. These are man-made materials which have electromagnetic properties not found in nature. He introduced a method for synthesizing metamaterials using loaded transmission lines. Together with his graduate students, he provided the first experimental evidence of imaging beyond the diffraction limit and pioneered several novel antennas and microwave components using these transmission-line based metamaterials. His research has impacted the field by demonstrating the unique electromagnetic properties of metamaterials and metasurfaces; used in lenses, antennas, and other microwave and optical components to drive innovation in fields such as wireless and satellite communications, defence, medical imaging, microscopy, and automotive radar. Presently, he is leading a group of graduate students and researchers in the areas of electromagnetic and optical metasurfaces, antennas and components for broadband wireless communications, novel antenna beam-steering techniques, far-field super-resolution imaging, radars, plasmonic and nanoscale optical components, and fundamental electromagnetic theory.

Prof. Eleftheriades served as an Associate Editor and serves as a Track Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (AP). He also served as a member of the IEEE AP-Society administrative committee (AdCom) from 2007 to 2012 and was an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer from 2004 to 2009. He served as the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation held in Toronto, ON, Canada. Papers that he co-authored have received numerous awards such as the 2009 Best Paper Award from the IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, twice the R. W. P. King Best Paper Award from the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (2008 and 2012), and the 2014 Piergiorgio Uslenghi Best Paper Award from the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS. He received the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award and the University of Toronto’s Gordon Slemon Award, both in 2001. In 2004 he received an E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2018 he received the Research Leader Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto. He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award, the 2015 IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award, the 2019 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Distinguished Achievement Award and the 2025 IEEE Electromagnetics Award.

Memberships/Awards

• 2025 IEEE Electromagnetics Award

• 2019 Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

• 2018 Recipient of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) Research Leadership Award.

• 2015 Recipent of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society John Kraus Antenna Award.

• Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada since 2009.

• Fellow of the IEEE since 2006.

• IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award (2008).

• NSERC Steacie Fellow (2004).

• Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2001).

• Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Best Paper Award for: M. Selvanayagam and G.V. Eleftheriades, “Circuit modelling of Huygens Surfaces”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagat. Letters} , vol. 12, pp. 1642-1645, 2013.

• 2010 IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Best Paper Award (co-authored with Loïc Markley)

• 2008 RWP King Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (co-authored with Ashwin Iyer)

• 2012 RWP King Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (co-authored with Alex Wong)