Ksenia Dolgaleva earned her undergraduate degree in Physics from Moscow State University, Russia. She has completed her Ph.D. program at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA in 2009. There Ksenia worked under the supervision of Prof. Robert Boyd on various projects, including composite laser materials, local-field-induced microscopic cascading in nonlinear optics, optical activity in artificial chiral structures and others. Ksenia is currently finishing her postdoctoral fellow program at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, where she has been working with Prof. Stewart Aitchison. Her research at the University of Toronto has been focused on nonlinear integrated optics in AlGaAs. Ksenia has recently accepted an offer fron the University of Ottawa where she will become an Assistant Professor at the Canada Excellence Research Chair team lead by Prof. Robert Boyd. Her appointment at the University of Ottawa starts on July 1, 2013.