University Distinguished Professor Carmen Menoni is an expert in laser technologies.  Her research investigates transparent nonconductor materials that advance state-of-art in interference coatings for ultra-high intensity lasers with applications to inertial fusion energy.

Menoni is faculty for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the chemistry department and the School of Biomedical Engineering, and she serves as Director of the Inertial Fusion Energy hub, RISE, supported by the DoE. She is also the co-founder and president of XUV Lasers, which commercializes laser technologies.

In just two years, Menoni has received the Joseph Fraunhofer Award and Robert M. Burley Prize (2024), the Willis Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2024) and the IEEE Women in Photonics Excellence Award (2023). She received her B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rosario and her Ph.D. in physics from Colorado State.