Main Honours and Distinctions: (i) 2018 recipient of the IET Harvey Engineering Research Prize (includes the research prize of 350k£ and the delivery of the IET Harvey Prize Lecture) “for contributions to electrodynamics of metamaterials and its applications to microwave components and devices”. (ii) APS Fellow (Fellow Class 2020) with the citation “For pioneering and seminal contributions to the theory of metamaterials and plasmonics, in particular for the development of the concepts of near‐zero index materials, and of nonlocal homogenization of metamaterials.” (iii) OSA Fellow (Fellow class 2021) with the citation “for pioneering contributions to the theory of metamaterials and plasmonics”. (iv) IEEE Fellow with the citation “for contributions to electrodynamics of metamaterials” (Fellow class of 2015); (v) Co‐recipient of a research award from the Simons Foundation (USA) in 2020 [Simons Collaboration in Mathematics and Physics]. (vi) Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, (since May 2022). (vii) Founding member of the editorial board of Physical Review Applied from APS, 2014.