Lora Ramunno's theoretical/computational research focuses on nonlinear and nano-optics, including intense laser-matter interaction, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical microscopy and photonic devices. She also has several successful industrial collaborative research projects. She has been a professor in physics at uOttawa since 2007, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Computational Nanophotonics from 2007 - 2017. She is a fellow of the Max-Planck uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, and the NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics.