NASA Kennedy Space Center, Visiting Technologist (Summer 2025) - Conducted experimental test campaign for plasma-based CO2 conversion and hydrogenation. (In the fields of Plasma Physics, Space Technology)

NASA Kennedy Space Center, Visiting Technologist (Summer 2024) - Utilized chemical diagnostic suite to test and develop an NRP-DBD plasma reactor prototype and contribute to ongoing efforts in developing a plasma catalytic reactor for spacecraft atmospheric revitalization under a NASA Space Act Agreement. (In the fields of Plasma Physics, Space Technology)

MIT Masters Thesis (2022-2024), “Plasma-based CO2 Conversion for Mars ISRU” - Developed a 0D chemical kinetic model that predicts the performance of a plasma CO2 conversion reactor for Mars in-situ resource utilization, where particular emphasis is placed on informing future designs with flight readiness criteria in mind. (In the fields of Plasma Physics, Space Technology)

MARTEMIS — NASA RASC-AL (2023-2024) - Lead System Architect for a large, but demonstrably affordable multi-mission architecture that supports a series of long-duration human missions on the Moon designed as “analogs” to robustly mitigate the risk of human missions to Mars. (In the fields of Systems Engineering, Space Mission Architecture)

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)

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, non-thermal 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) - Investigated the material properties of perovskite CsSnI3 for solar cell applications. This research resulted in a publication that is listed below. (In the field of condensed matter physics)