She received her B.S. in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Oldenburg received the NSF CAREER award in Biophotonics in 2014. Her research interests include developing novel imaging methods based upon optical coherence tomography, digital holography, and ultrasound to reveal biomechanical and functional cellular properties for fundamental and translational biomedical research.