Stephanie Pierce is a senior research associate at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Bioengineering in the research group of Dr. Emily Gibson working on super-resolution STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy with applications in Neuroscience. She received her BS and BA degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 and her PhD in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2011. Her PhD thesis "A Frequency-stabilized, Diode-pumped Yb:KYW Optical Frequency Comb for Metrology" was advised by Dr. Scott Diddams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.