Prof. Viktoriia Babicheva joined UNM after her postdoctoral experience in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before that, Prof. Babicheva worked in the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University and the Center for Nano-Optics at Georgia State University. Prof. Babicheva’s research focus is nanophotonics, nano-optics, and photonic materials, and the work specialization is on localized and delocalized nanoparticle resonances in periodic arrays, hyperbolic metamaterials, and near-field imaging of layered materials. Prof. Babicheva has been a Principal Editor for MRS Advances since 2015. Her research interests include plasmonics, metamaterials, and metasurfaces; optical waveguides and modulators; and near-field optical imaging.