[2] Cerreta is internationally recognized for her research on the relationship between microstructure and dynamic materials properties.
[3][4] For her doctoral studies, she worked with Tresa Pollock and Subhash Mahajan on Substructural Evolution of Creep Deformed Titanium Aluminides.
[5] She performed some of her graduate research as a visiting scientist in the Center for High Resolution Microscopy (CHREM) at Arizona State University.
Cerreta joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then Technical Staff Member in 2003 in the Structure/Properties Relations Group (MST-8).
At Los Alamos as a Technical Staff Member and Scientist, she has led a number of projects to investigate dynamic materials performance and provide insight toward advanced predictive capabilities for strength and damage in extreme environments.