[3] She discovered several asteroids in 1988, including 5256 Farquhar,[4] and in 1989, when she was a sophomore at Caltech, she gained time on the Palomar Observatory to search for more.
[2] After six years at Tesla, in 2018, she moved to Uber[6] as Director of Battery Engineering,[2] ostensibly as part of an effort to develop electric flying cars.
[7] Next, in 2021,[8] she became vice president for manufacturing at QuantumScape, another electric car battery supplier,[2] only to leave after less than a year over a "management style mismatch".
[9][10] Mikolajczak is a coauthor of the book Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment (with Michael Kahn, Kevin White, and Richard Thomas Long, Springer, 2012).
Subsequent experiments based on that approach tested the flammability of these batteries and the effectiveness of building sprinkler systems at battling their fires.