Åsa Haglund is a Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and her research group focuses on visible and ultraviolet (UV) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and thin-film UV light-emitting diodes. Prof. Haglund has been a visiting scientist at Ulm University in Germany and Lund University in Sweden and has published more than 150 papers. She is a mentor for researchers in physics and a technical program committee member of the International Workshop on Nitride semiconductors and the International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors. Prof. Haglund recently received two prestigious research grants from the European Research Council and the Swedish Research council to consolidate her research on blue and ultraviolet VCSELs.