Na Liu won the best female young physicist in Germany (Hertha-Sponer Prize 2010)

In Germany, one of the groups that have been very successful in advancing metamaterials research, besides Wegener's group, is Harald Giessen's group in Stuttgart. I had the opportunity of meeting Harald Giessen in San Diego in 2008.

The best known works, of Giessen's group, are on Stereometamaterials and the Plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency at the Drude damping limit.

And, the work contribution is largely attributed to Na Liu's effort. As a reward, the Hertha Sponer Prize 2010 of the German Physical Society for the best female young physicist in Germany has been awarded to her for her research into metamaterials.

Na Liu is now in Alivisatos group in UC Berkeley.

And of course, Europe has once again been brain-drained!:)