Carolina C. Ilie is Associate Professor of Physics at State University of New York at Oswego, the recipient of the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Provost’s Award for Mentoring in Scholarly and Creative Activity. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from University of Nebraska at Lincoln, under the direction of Professor Peter Dowben and has a M.Sc. in Physics from the Ohio State University. The focus of Carolina Ilie’s group is dynamics at surfaces, electric transport properties of organic thin films, and capillary condensation. In 2016 she published “Electromagnetism: Problems and Solutions” with SUNY Oswego alumnus Zachariah Schrecengost.