Mina Bionta is currently a Senior Postdoctoral Associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Varennes, QC, Canada. Mina received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toulouse, and her B.S in Physics from Stanford University. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Research Associate at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). She is a member of APS, AWIS, and a senior member of Optica (formerly OSA). Mina’s research focuses on using ultrafast nanoscale light-matter interactions to characterize and control material properties and dynamics. Her work has garnered numerous accolades, such as being featured in Nature Photonics News & Views, Nature Materials News & Views, Optica's Optics and Photonics News Optics of the Year 2021, DESY Photon Science Highlights, MIT News, DESY News, SLAC News, by the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, and chosen as a Chair's pick at CLEO:2019. Mina is also an active member of the MIT Postdoctoral Association's Advocacy and Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committees as well as a core member of the Postdoctoral Women Engaged in Research (PoWER) group at MIT. In her spare time Mina enjoys cooking, running, and traveling.