Liu Na

This article is about the physicist Liu Na. For other people, see Na Liu .

Liu Na ( Chinese  刘娜 , Pinyin Liú Nà ; * 1979 in Shenyang , Liaoning Province ) is a Chinese physicist . It plays an internationally leading role in the field of metamaterials .

Life

Liu studied physics at Jilin University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology . After completing her studies, she moved to Germany , where she worked at the 4th Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart and received her doctorate in 2009 . As a post-doctoral student , she initially continued to work at the University of Stuttgart. In 2010 she received the Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society " for pioneering contributions to the characterization and manufacture of three-dimensional metal nanostructures ". She then went to the United States for a year and continued her research as a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley . Since 2011 she has been visiting professor at Rice University in Houston , Texas . She has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since August 2012 .

Liu Na is married. Her husband, also a physicist, followed her to Germany after a year. He works at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

Awards

• 2008: Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
• 2010: Dissertation award from the Friends of the University of Stuttgart
• 2010: Hertha Sponer Prize
• 2011: Best Paper Award of the 5th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics
• 2011: AGeNT-D nanoscience award
• 2012: Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize
• 2013–2015: Member of the Schiemann-Kolleg
• 2014: Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize
• 2018: Rudolf Kaiser Prize
• 2019: Adolph Lomb Medal

Web links

• Literature by and about Liu Na in the catalog of the German National Library
• The winners of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize 2012 (AQ)
• Entry on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Schäfer: University of Stuttgart: Maturation in the clean room. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 23, 2010, accessed January 16, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Physics Prizes 2010: Herta Sponer Prize . In: Physics Journal . tape 9 , no. 1 , 2010, p. 59 ( pro-physik.de [PDF]).
3. ↑ Laudation for the award winner Dr. Laura Na Liu. DFG, May 12, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2020 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Na is the first name.