On May 23, 2025, Lynn Pickering successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "The lenses of interpretability: a framework for investigating the interpretability of learned models" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinatti, USA. Lynn was supervised by Kelly Cohen, President of NAFIPS, and Bernard De Baets. Lynn was supported by various scholarships, including a prestigious Fulbright scholarship and a scholarship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF).