Andrew Mark is the Director of Photonics at Meta Materials Inc (META®), a Canada headquartered company designing, developing, and manufacturing materials and devices to enable tomorrow’s technologies. Before joining META, he served as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart Germany, where his research covered topics included acoustic holography, large-scale fabrication techniques for 3D nanostructures, chiral plasmonics, mechanical metamaterials, and applications of nanoplasmonics. He holds a PhD in Physics, from Queen’s University for work on atomic resolution scanning tunneling microscopy of semiconductor defect structures. He has authored over 30 journal papers and was awarded the Gunter Petzow prize in 2015 for outstanding research in the field of material science.