Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع; born October 8, 1955) is an Iranian-American scientist.

[6] He is one of the original pioneers of the field of modern metamaterials, and is the originator of the fields of near-zero-index metamaterials, plasmonic cloaking and optical nano circuitry (optical metatronics,[citation needed]).

This concept has been recently verified and realized experimentally by him and his research group at the University of Pennsylvania.

His near-zero-index structures exhibit unique properties in light-matter interaction that have provided exciting possibilities in nanophotonics.

He is currently the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania,[25] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, affiliated with the departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy.