Laura Na Liu

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Heisenbergstrasse 1
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel.: ++49 711 689 1838

• Researcher ID: C-8190-2014
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• Deputy Editor, Science Advances (AAAS)
• Associate Editor, ACS Photonics (ACS)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Nano Letters (ACS)
• Editorial Board, npj Nanophotonics (Nature Portfolio)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances (RSC)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Materials and Interfaces (Scilight)
• Advisory Board, Matter (Cell Press)
• Honorary Advisor, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN)

• 2023 Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
• 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• 2022 Finalist of A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize (IET)
• 2020 Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA)
• 2020 Max Planck Fellow    
• 2019 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science)
• 2019 EU-40 Materials Prize (E-MRS)
• 2019 The Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship Award (ACS)
• 2019 Fellow of the Max Planck School Matter to Life
• 2019 Adolph Lomb Medal (OSA)
• 2019 Rising Researcher Award (SPIE)
• 2018 Annual Research Prize of University of Heidelberg
• 2018 Rudolf-Kaiser Prize
• 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science)
• 2018 The Kavli Foundation Early Career Award in Materials Science (MRS)
• 2018 The IUMRS – MRS Singapore Young Researcher Award Finalist
• 2016 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics from the International Commission for Optics (ICO)
• 2015 Light2015 Young Woman in Photonics Award of the European Optical Society (EOS)
• 2014 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award
• 2014 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2013 Elisabeth Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society (MPG)
• 2012 Marie Curie CIG Fellowship
• 2012 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)
• 2011 Nanowissenschaftspreis AGENT-D
• 2010 Hertha-Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society (DPG)
• 2010 Dissertationspreis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart
• 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad

• Professor, Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Group Leader, The Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
• Visiting Professor, Rice University, USA
• Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Ph. D., Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• M.S., Physics, The Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong
• B.S. Physics, Jilin University, China