Lauren Bandklayder is the Education and Outreach Coordinator at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), where she leads public-facing engagement initiatives, stakeholder visits, institutional programming, and external outreach activities. Her work includes coordinating high-profile visits involving government delegations, Institute leadership, media, industry partners, and public audiences, as well as supporting seminars, tours, and center-wide engagement programming across PSFC.
Lauren works closely with PSFC leadership, researchers, students, and Institute offices to support strategic engagement initiatives and communicate fusion and plasma science research to broad audiences. Prior to joining MIT, she held research positions at the Max Planck Institute of Mathematics in Bonn, Germany and Northwestern University, where she earned her PhD in mathematics as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
Ph.D. Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2018
M.Ed. Teaching and Teacher Leadership, Harvard University, 2023
B.A. Mathematics, New York University, 2011