As a child, she watched Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos, which helped inspire her love of space.

As a Princeton student, she completed study-abroad programs at University of Seville and Universidad de León.

[4] Landau began to write and produce for CNN's website in 2007 as a Master's Fellow, and returned full-time in 2008.

[7][8][9] In 2012, Landau interviewed Scott Maxwell about the Curiosity rover at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[1] Landau has written for CNN, Marie Claire, New Scientist, Nautilus, Scientific American, Vice and The Wall Street Journal.