Vienna C. Lam is the Forensic Entomology Laboratory Manager at Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Centre for Forensic Research, a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Candidate (SSHRC CGS-D) at the SFU School of Criminology, and a Data Analyst for the city of Port Moody.

Her research involves aquatic human body detection, decomposition, and repatriation. These studies include geospatial analyses of drowning data, examination of water safety awareness among vulnerable populations, and aquatic body decomposition from a medicolegal and forensic anthropological perspective. More recently, Vienna has been leading a project that examines how the COVID-19 global health crisis has impacted medicolegal investigations.