She has previously been chief scientist of the Optical Society (OSA),
chief executive of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
(ETSF), senior scientist in the Bio/Nano/Chem Group at In-Q-Tel, and
program manager for atomic and molecular physics at the U.S. Air
Force Office of Scientific Research.
She has also been a researcher at Lund University in Sweden,
Stanford University and the University of Tokyo; a Fulbright Scholar
to Nagoya University; and an adjunct professor in the physics
department at Boston University.
Dr. Matsuura received her Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.