The "European Doctoral Programmes on Metamaterials" offer courses within the geographically "Distributed European School on Metamaterials". A Consortium initiated by the members of the European Network of Excellence (NoE) METAMORPHOSE (and open to any European academic institution) has been established to operate and support the "European Doctoral Programmes on Metamaterials". The Consortium also regulates the rules of student exchange, joint research, credit transfers, etc. between participating universities.

Research in metamaterials involves a wide spectrum of disciplines ranging from Applied Mathematics and Physics to Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Chemistry to Materials Science, and even Biophysics. Thus, the metamaterials research is indeed a truly multidisciplinary field spanning the area from basic theoretical and experimental research at universities to industrial production of a diverse array of electrical, microwave, infrared and optical materials and devices.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary research training program in this rapidly advancing field requires the co-operation of the leading European experts, and this was the driving idea underpinning the formation of this EU Consortium, which now operates under the auspices of the METAMORPHOSE Virtual Institute AISBL.

Academic institutions that are willing to be part of the Consortium should contact the Programmes Coordinator (see below), and the President of the METAMORPHOSE Virtual Institute AISBL (S. Tretyakov).

• Memorandum of understanding (pdf - 57 Kb)
• Amendment NO.1 to Memorandum of understanding (pdf - 83 Kb)
• Updated Memorandum for 2010-2014

Presentation of EUPROMETA in pdf

Members of the Consortium

1. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2. CNRS (Universitè de Lille), Lille, France
3. Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
4. Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
5. Swiss Federal Institute of Tecnology, Lausanne, Switzerland
6. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
7. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
8. Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
9. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
10. Siegen University, Siegen, Germany
11. St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
12. FORTH, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece
13. St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
14. University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
15. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
16. University of Siena, Siena, Italy
17. Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
18. Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
19. The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK
20. Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
21. Thales Research & Technology, Paris, France
22. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
23. Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Warsaw, Poland
24. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
25. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Dec. 2006 review article:

"METAMORPHOSE European Doctoral Programs on Metamaterials state-of-the-art", F. Capolino, S. Tretyakov, F. Bilotti, A. Schuchinsky, F.  Martin, V. Podlozny, A. Sihvola, D.A. Pawlak, I. Vendik, S. Zouhdi, C. Craeye, N. Johnson, J. M. Arnold, T. Szoplik, R. Gonzalo, IEEE AP Magazine, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 219-223, Dec. 2006.

EU Doctoral Programmes Coordinator
Carsten Rockstuhl - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Past EU Doctoral Programmes Coordinator (2004-2009)
Filippo Capolino - now at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Steering Committee