It is rare for an associate professor to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, even more so when she was only the third woman in history to do so, but Dr. Donna Strickland did just that. A permanent smile on her face expressing her friendliness, the fast speaking speed showing her quick thinking, Dr. Strickland is not only a good tutor with strong hands-on ability and high working efficiency in the eyes of her students, but also an optimistic and diligent scholar in the eyes of her peers. Taking an active part in academic societies and the popularization of science, she regards scientific research as "fun". The famous Canadian physicist Donna Strickland talks exclusively to Light: Science and Applications (light).