Jessica C Ramella-Roman

Jessica Ramella-Roman received an Electrical Engineering degree (Laurea) from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1993 and worked for five years in the semiconductor industry. She returned to academia in 1999 to pursue a PhD degree in bio-optics with Steve Jacques and received a Master and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon in 2004. Since 2013, she has served an Associate Professor at Florida International University, in the Biomedical Engineering Department and an Associate Professor on the Research Scientist Track in the Department of Ophthalmology. Her research focuses on the development of imaging modalities based on spectroscopy and polarization including multimodal applications of nonlinear microscopy. She was elected an Optica Fellow in 2024.