Carmen S. Menoni (M’90–SM’99–F’10) is a University Distinguished Professor with Colorado State University whose home department is electrical and computer engineering. She also holds appointments in Chemistry, the School of Advanced Materials Discovery, and the School of Biomedical Engineering. Her research bridges from photonics materials to extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray photonics. One aspect of her research focuses on the growth and characterization of thin film oxides for the engineering of interference coatings for high-power lasers and ultrahigh precision optics for gravitational wave interferometers. Her group also specializes in the usage of bright coherent beams of extreme ultraviolet laser light of wavelengths between 10 and 50 nm for optics applications such as nanoscale imaging, ablation, and mass spectrometry. Prof. Menoni has served the IEEE Photonics Society as a Member of the Board of Governors, the Vice-President for Publications, and the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Photonics Journal. She will serve as the President-Elect of the IEEE Photonics Society in 2019. She is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and SPIE.