Dragomir Neshev is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) and a Professor of Physics at the Australian National University (ANU). He received a PhD from Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1999. Since then, he has worked at several research centres worldwide before joining the ANU in 2002. He has been recognized for his outstanding work with numerous honours, including being named a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science, 2021-2024), receiving a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (ARC, 2010), and being awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission, 2001). His activities span several branches of optics, including meta-optics, metasurfaces, periodic photonic structures, and singular optics.