[4][5] She received an award from the American Astronomical Society for outstanding achievements by a young scientist.
[8] At Caltech, she was the first to study shock propagation in ice under similar conditions found in our solar system.
Her group also does experiments at the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratory to study shock-induced vaporization.
Lock, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, et al. hypothesized a new kind of astronomical object – a synestia – and proposed a new model of how the Earth and Moon were formed.
Stewart's husband, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, is also a professor and planetary scientist at UC Davis.