Nathalie Pulmones de Leon (born 1982) is a Filipino-American chemist, physicist, and associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University.
Her maternal grandfather was a commercial seaman who was stationed in San Francisco during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was subsequently offered U.S. citizenship contingent on joining the United States Coast Guard.
[1] de Leon moved to Harvard University for her doctoral research in chemical physics, where she joined the laboratory of Hongkun Park.
[5] She developed a nanoscale plasmon resonator capable of tailoring specific light-matter interactions, and demonstrated it convert a broadband emitter to a narrow-band single-photon source.
[citation needed] de Leon is married, and met her husband while she was completing her postdoc appointment at Harvard and he was finishing his PhD.