Lena Heffern
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Lena Heffern
Research Assistant
I am currently attending Arizona State University for an interdisciplinary PhD in Exploration Systems Design of Instrumentation. I enjoyed working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in the Nuclear & Chemical Sciences Division as a Post-Master’s Research Assistant from 2015-2017. My career focus is to be able to combine my passion for science with my engineering and analysis skills through instrumentation development related to remote sensing. I earned my Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering with an emphasis in instrumentation from the University of New Mexico in May 2015. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics from California State University: Chico in May 2013. At Chico I was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, Society of Physics Students, and Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honors society).