Andrea Armani is jointly appointed at the Ellison Institute of Technology as the Senior Director of Physical Sciences and Engineering and at the University of Southern California as the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. The overarching mission of her research is to develop nonlinear materials and integrated devices to advance microscopy and diagnostics. She is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, NAI, and AAAS, and the impact of her work has been recognized by the World Economic Forum and others.