2017 SPIE Women in Optics Planner

Dr. Kyle J. Myers, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Since 2005, SPIE has issued a planner that highlights women in optics and photonics, the areas of emphasis of SPIE, as well as in other science and technology careers. What a great way to showcase the talent in our community! I hope you enjoy hearing from these women about their careers and their personal stories. Each story is unique, expressing the wonderful breadth of backgrounds and experiences of the many women in STEM fields. You'll find that they all have this in common: They are passionate about what they do, working to make a real difference in the world in the many ways a career in science and technology enables them to do.

View the 2017 profiles by clicking on names, listed in alphabetical order, below:

• Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor
  
  
• Yuhong Bai, Deputy Editor in Chief; Professor
  
  
• Sarah Ballard, Torres Fellow for Exoplanetary Science
  
  
• Audrey Bowden, Assistant Professor
  
  
• Alice Bowman, New Horizons Mission Operations Manager; Space Mission Operations Group Supervisor
  
  
• Louise Bradley, Associate Professor
  
  
• Astghik Chalyan, PhD Student
  
  
• Adi Diner, Engineering Project Manager
  
  
• Celine d'Orgeville, Instrument Scientist; Adaptive Optics Group Manager
  
  
• Virginia Ford, Senior Opto-MechanicalEngineer
  
  
• Tracy Fung, Staff Development Engineer
  
  
• Irene Georgakoudi, Associate Professor
  
  
• Shila Ghosh, Professor
  
  
• Senta Greene, Stevenson Professor of Physics
  
  
• Yael Hanein, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Head
  
  
• Lisa Hardaway, Program Manager for Spacecraft and Science Instruments
  
  
• Sona Hosseini, Research and Instrument Scientist
  
  
• Gihan Kamel, University Lecturer; Principal Infrared Beamline Scientist
  
  
• Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Principal Investigator
  
  
• Antigone Marino, Research Scientist
  
  
• Karen Newman, Group Publisher
  
  
• Nada O'Brien, Technical Manager Oculus Research
  
  
• Chrysanthe Preza, Associate Professor
  
  
• Claire Roberston, Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  
• Tamar Segal-Peretz, Assistant Professor
  
  
• Loling Song, CEO; Founder
  
  
• Irene Sterian, Director of Technology and Innovation; Executive Director
  
  
• Aimee Tomlinson, Associate Professor
  
  

The 2017 SPIE Women in Optics planner is sponsored by: