About This Lesson
Andrea Alù, an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has an amazing job description: he makes things invisible. Alù is a leading innovator in metamaterials, artificial materials with properties that allow electromagnetic waves to wrap around them. That light-bending technology could allow for the creation of microscopes with drastically improved performance. For his work, the National Science Foundation presented Alù with its 2015 Alan T. Waterman Award, which recognizes outstanding young researchers.
