Liu Na

Laura Na Liu (born 1979) is a Chinese physicist focused on researching nano-optics of three-dimensional meta materials as it applies to biology and chemistry. After receiving her undergraduate and master's degree in China, she has had many global opportunities for education and research including Germany and the United States of America. In 2011, she transitioned again to Rice University to be a Texas Instrument Visiting professor. The following year, Liu joined the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and led the "Small Nanoplasmonics" research group. Since 2015, Liu moved back to Germany and is a professor at University of Stuttgart. Liu has also been married since receiving her degrees in China. Liu designs and studies 3D meta-materials which are classified as smaller than visible light's wavelength. These can play an important role to understand small scale biological structures and even metal interactions. In addition, she was involved in designing an absorber device for optical sensing, even through metal interference.

Publications Liu has been a prolific publisher since 2008. A few of her most cited articles tracked by Web of Science are:

Liu, N., Mesch, M., Weiss, T., Hentschel, M., & Giessen, H. (2010). "Infrared Perfect Absorber and Its Application as Plasmonic Sensor" Nano Letters, 10(7), 2342–2348. doi.10.1021/NL9041033 Liu, N., Langguth, L., Weiss, T., Kästel, J., Fleischhauer, M., Pfau, T., & Giessen, H. (2009). "Plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency at the Drude damping limit" Nature Materials, 8(9), 758–762.doi.org/10.1021/NL9041033 Liu, N., Mesch, M., Weiss, T., Hentschel, M., Giessen, H. (2010) "Planar Metamaterial Analogue of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency for Plasmonic Sensing" Nano Letters, 10(4),1103-1107 doi.10.1021/NL902621D Liu, N., Tan, M., Hentshcel, M., Giessen, H., Alivisatos, A. (2011) "Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus" Nature Materials 10, 631–636 doi. 10.1038/NMAT3029 Liu, N., Guo, H., Fu, L., Kaiser, S., Schweizer, H., Giessen, H. (2008) "Three-dimensional photonic metamaterials at optical frequencies" Nature Materials, 7, 31-37 doi 10.1038/NMAT2072

Awards By incorporating chemistry and biology into nano-photonics, Liu has advanced the multidisciplinary collaboration and research within this field. 2020 Fellow of Optica 2019: Adolph Lomb Medal (awards a young scientist or engineer who has greatly advanced the field of optics by The Optical Society) 2018 & 2019: Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science 2015: Light 2015 Young Women in Photonics Award (given by the European Optical Society) 2014: European Research Council Starting Grant 2013: Elisabeth Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society Fellowship 2010: Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Research Foundation