[1] Her work included ultra-lightweight mirrors and trying to mitigate the degradation of image quality arising from intercellular deflections.

[2] After completing her MS degree at the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, Carmiña Londoño returned to Massachusetts, where she joined the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory to work with Ralph Berggren and Dan Trainor on the lens design and building of diffraction limited optical resonators for high-energy excimer lasers for the Strategic Defense Initiative.

She co-designed the optics for a medical printer that wrote digital half-tone images with four multi-mode diode lasers on a Polaroid proprietary and unique high-resolution binary film for ultrasound and x-ray applications.

While at Polaroid under the guidance of William Plummer, Carmiña Londoño completed her PhD at the Tufts University Electro-Optics Technology Center.

In 1994 Dr. Londoño was selected as a Congressional Science Fellow, supported by the American Institute of Physics.

Subsequently, she joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1995, where she spent thirteen years.

Dr. Londoño is a member of the U.S. Federal Government Senior Executive Service [1] with 30 years of experience that include: leading people, strategic planning, program management, project development, research administration, program evaluation, international collaboration, public speaking, and optical design and engineering in the private sector.

[6] Carmiña is passionate about improving access to optics and physics careers to children and young professionals.