Previously, Lilian joined the faculty at Bates College as a visiting assistant professor, and was subsequently hired to a tenure-track position in 2008. She has taught classes in fluid mechanics, solid state physics, quantum mechanics, electronics, and introductory physics. Lilian's experimental work on single-spin manipulation in diamond helped open a new research area for solid state implementations of quantum information processing systems, while her theoretical contributions to quantum repeater architectures have rekindled interest in near-term applications for small quantum registers in a variety of physical systems.