Lucas Macri

Lucas Macri came to NOIRLab in May 2023, having spent the previous 15 years as a professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he also served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs since 2017. He received his PhD in 2001 from Harvard University and held joint Hubble and Goldberg postdoctoral fellowships at NOAO between 2002 and 2008. His research interests are in the extragalactic distance scale and the search for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources.