Zoya Popovic

Zoya has led the University of Colorado Radio Frequency Lab for over three decades, graduating 63 PhD researchers into impactful roles at universities and industry. Zoya and her students have made significant contributions in communications and radar including innovations that are flying in Lockheed satellites now. But it was after the US Military had soldiers in Afghanistan suffering and dying from heat stroke that prompted Zoya to redirect sensitive power measurement technologies from radio astronomy inward, to non-invasively measure and monitor internal body temperatures in real-time.

While Zoya has kept her lab focused on the cutting edge of electromagnetic and analog device research, she has always kept a pragmatic eye on real-world applications. This synergy has led to the development of the non-invasive, wearable internal body temperature sensor that LumenAstra is commercializing into breakthrough devices that promise to have a large impact on millions of lives in the near future.