Kathy Mandt has been involved in interdisciplinary planetary research since 2007 with over 80 lead and co-authored refereed publications in the areas of the photochemistry, dynamics and evolution of planetary atmospheres, solar wind interaction with cometary comae, mass spectrometry, ultraviolet surface mapping and surface geomorphology. Her research has covered comets, the atmospheres of Titan, Pluto, Triton and Mars as well as the surface of Mars and the Moon. She carried out these investigations as a Co-Investigator and Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) and as a science team member of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) Ion Electron Spectrometer (IES) and the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS). In 2016-2017 she served on the NASA Ice Giants Science Definition Team (SDT) and has served on the Science Organizing Committee of several international workshops. She is committed to mentoring the next generation of scientists, having served as an Adjoint Professor in the University of Texas at San Antonio Physics program. She has mentored one postdoctoral researcher and several graduate students, and initiated a career development program at her last institution prior to arriving at APL. She is also committed to community service, having served on several NASA review panels and served as group chief of three panels.

Full publication list at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YR0JHf8AAAAJ&hl=en