Optica Fellow Hatice Altug earned her BS in Physics from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 2000. In 2007, she completed her PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford University, USA. She then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. From 2007 until 2013, she was first an assistant and later an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. Now, she is a Full Professor at the Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland, and the Director of the Doctoral Program in Photonics. She has been recognized with many awards and honors, including the Adolph Lomb Medal in 2012 “for breakthrough contributions on integrated optical nano-biosensor and nanospectroscopy technologies based on nanoplasmonics, nanofluidics, and novel nanofabrication.”