Lora Ramunno is a Full Professor in Physics at uOttawa, a fellow of the Max-Planck-UOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics and a fellow of the NRC-UOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics (JCEP).

She was the recipient of a New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration Grant in 2020, has held a Canada Research Chair in Computational Nanophotonics from 2007-2017, and received an Early Researcher Award in 2007.

Her theoretical/computational research focuses on nonlinear and nano-optics, including intense laser-matter interaction, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical microscopy, and inverse design and machine learning for photonics. She also has several successful industrial collaborative projects.