She is the founding director of Center for Sustainable Innovation at UCB and the co-founder of Quantum Advanced Detection (QUAD) LLC.

Lanzara subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship appointment at Stanford University until 2002.

[1] She was named 2019-2020 Bakar Fellow for advancing her materials work in quantum computing applications.

She is also known for developing a new synthesis method that has enabled the synthesis of large wafers of graphene and engineering of its bandage, critical for any electronic applications and for the development of a cutting edge instrumentation to image the spin of the electrons with full energy and momentum resolution.

[4] She has received numerous prizes among which the Fibonacci Prize, 2016[5] and the Marie Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society, 2009 In 2014 Lanzara gave the opening lecture for the Centennial of the Italian Physical Society.