Ms. Lawrence is the lead for the Risk-Informed Systems Analysis (RISA) Pathway under the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. She is also the manager of Risk Phenomena Modeling department at the Idaho National Laboratory. RISA pathway conducts research and development that supports the U.S. nuclear industry with the aim to improve economics, reliability, and sustain safety of nuclear plants over periods of plant operations.

Ms. Lawrence is a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) engineer with a MS degree in Reliability Engineering with over twenty years of engineering experience. As the pathway lead, Ms. Lawrence is involved in multiple research areas including evaluation of opportunities for power uprates, safety assessments of Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF), risk-informed plant operations, risk-informed and performance-based asset management, enhanced fire analysis, risk assessment of digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems, human reliability analysis (HRA), dynamic PRA & HRA, plant core reload optimization, risk-informed compliance, and optimization of plant outages. Ms. Lawrence is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Systems Engineering at Colorado State University. This additional knowledge will enhance her abilities to integrate multi-disciplinary projects to derive a more holistic and comprehensive approach to systems lifecycle management, a much needed competence for large projects in nuclear industry.