NASA Kennedy Space Center, Visiting Researcher (Summer 2024) - I will utilize the plasma and chemical diagnostic suite available in the Applied Chemistry Lab to test and develop a plasma reactor prototype for my PhD thesis work, and contribute to ongoing efforts in plasma chemical conversion for waste gasification and life-support systems under a NASA Space Act Agreement. (In the fields of Plasma Physics, Space Technology)

MIT Masters Thesis (2022-2024) - Currently developing a 0D-1D chemical kinetic and numerical model that predicts the performance (conversion, efficiency, and temperature) of a plasma-assisted CO2 conversion reactor for Mars in-situ resource utilization. Particular emphasis is placed on informing future designs with flight readiness criteria and engineering principles in mind. You can read more about this ongoing project here. (In the fields of Plasma Physics, Space Technology)

PALE RED DOT — NASA RASC-AL (2022-2023) - A two-village, 32-crew mission architecture for 10 years of continuous habitation on Mars with limited resupply, enabled by bioregenerative life-support and food production, and an industrial ecosystem with manufacturing capabilities from local resources. Lanie’s contributions include the evaluation and selection of chemical conversion technologies for life-support and the industrial ecosystem as well as the design of Mars-manufacturable life-support components. Several relevant publications are below. (In the fields of Systems Engineering, Space Mission Architecture)

MARTEMIS — NASA RASC-AL (2023-2024) - Lead Systems Architect for a mission architecture that provides a long-duration Mars simulation at the Moon. (In the fields of Systems Engineering, Space Mission Architecture)

Senior Thesis (2022) -  Determining conditions and allowed values of scattering lengths for having bound states in a universe with arbitrary (fractional) dimensions using a shape-independent regularized pseudopotential for two cold atoms in a harmonic trap. This thesis resulted in a publication listed below. (In the field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics)

CU Boulder Research Experience for Undergraduates (2021) - Investigated electrostatic dust charging, caused by incident, low-density, nonthermal plasma, at variable pressures using plasma diagnostics, in order to simulate dust effects on airless planetary bodies and explore semiconductor manufacturing applications. (In the field of Plasma Physics)

Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (2019) - Used supercomputer TITAN to perform quantum mechanical calculations, such as its density of states, concerning perovskite CsSnI3 for solar cell applications. This research resulted in a publication that is listed below. (In the field of condensed matter physics)