Lauren is an Ernest Kempton Adams Postdoctoral Fellow in the ATLAS group at Columbia University. She received her PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Vassar College. Her doctoral research focused on searches for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics with the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. She joined Columbia in May 2025, where her current work includes both detector hardware upgrades for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider and ongoing new physics searches with ATLAS.