Robyn Lalime, Ph.D.

The thing that I love most about it is that it’s a really high-paced environment.

Dr. Robyn Lalime is CNA Operations Evaluation Group’s field analyst assigned to U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, Fallon, NV.

Lalime joined CNA 2008 as a research analyst with CNA Advanced Technology and Systems Analysis following 18 months of work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM) where she as a Glenn T. Seaborg Post Doctoral Research Associate, exploring the organometallic chemistry of uranium and probing ligand effects on bond covalency

“All the work I do is focused around supporting the aviation community in the Navy, so it’s all a lot of physics and math. We do tactics analysis, development and evaluation. And we work with weapons…analyzing where they’re most effective, the best ways to defeat them.

“We also do a lot of physics and analysis on the aircraft themselves – like what, exactly, is happening to the air frame when they pull this maneuver or that maneuver – and we work with radars. It’s all highly technical but it’s a lot of fun.”

Lalime is a member of the Pi Chapter of the professional chemistry fraternity, Alpha Chi Sigma, and is a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007-2008), and of the American Chemical Society (2000-2008). She is also a member of the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) Divemaster.  (Click here to see a video interview of Dr. Lalime.)