Miguel Navarro-Cía is a Reader in TeraHertz Science and Engineering jointly in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and in the School of Engineering.

Miguel’s research focuses on the general field of applied electromagnetics. He has published over 125 research papers in scientific journals as well as two book chapters, and has contributed over 300 communications to international conferences in the fields of metamaterials/metasurfaces, plasmonics, time-domain near-field microscopy and antennas at terahertz and infrared. He has been a member of organising and technical committees and chaired sessions in international conferences. He is a regular reviewer for several APS, AIP, IEEE, OSA, IoP, EIT and several Nature Publishing Group journals and for the funding bodies including ERC, EPSRC and the British Council. He has received funding from the EPSRC, H2020, DSTL, the European Science Foundation and the Royal Society.

He is actively engaged in promoting research on terahertz and has delivered several courses and talks on this topic to various groups at both the national and international level. His vision is to merge concepts from two different worlds like optics and microwave engineering to realized functional materials (metamaterials) and devices that will enable the exploitation of the THz spectrum efficiently for sensing applications and short range high-space wireless communication. He is a member of the terahertz user group of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing whose aim is to promote and advance techniques utilising 0.1 to 10 THz technologies to inspect components, materials and structures, and to recommend standardisation and best practice as appropriate.