Maritza Arlene Lara-López is a Mexican astronomer whose research interests include metallicity in galaxy formation and evolution and extragalactic astronomy.[1] She is a participant in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, and a researcher and Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the faculty of physical sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid.[2]

Education and career

Lara-López is originally from Puebla, and did her undergraduate studies in physics at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, graduating in 2005 with a senior thesis based on research at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Puebla and mentored by Raul Mújica and Omar López Cruz.[3][4] She became a graduate student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in the Canary Islands of Spain, supported by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT).[3] She earned a master's degree in 2007 and completed her PhD in 2011,[2] supervised by Jordi Cepa.[3][4]

She was a researcher and "Super Science Fellow" at the Australian Astronomical Observatory from 2011 to 2014.[2] Next, she became an assistant professor of astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), associated with the UNAM Institute of Astronomy, from 2014 to 2017.[2][3] She was a research fellow and assistant professor at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen from 2017 to 2020,[2][5] and a postdoctoral researcher at the Armagh Observatory in Ireland from 2020 to 2022.[2][6] She took her present position as Ramon y Cajal Fellow in the faculty of physical sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2022.[2]

Her research collaborations include the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, the SAMI Galaxy Survey, and the OSIRIS Tunable Emission Line Object Survey (OTELO).[4]

Recognition

Lara-López's dissertation won a prize for the best thesis in Mexico.[3][6] In 2016, L'Oréal México named her as one of five winners of their L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science Fellowship.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Astrónoma mexicana estudia la Galaxia de los Fuegos Artificiales", El Mundo, 7 December 2016
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Maritza Arlene Lara-Lopez", ORCiD, retrieved 2022-12-05
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Faculty Highlight: Prof. Maritza Lara López", Astronomy in Color, 26 May 2016, retrieved 2022-12-05
  4. 1 2 3 "Investigadora Dra. Maritza A. Lara-López", Directory, UNAM Institute of Astronomy, retrieved 2022-12-05
  5. ↑ "Maritza A. Lara-Lopez: Assistant Professor", Staff & students, Neils Bohr Institute, 26 September 2018, retrieved 2022-12-05
  6. 1 2 "IAA Zoom Lecture", Monthly archives, Irish Astronomical Association, July 2021, retrieved 2022-12-05
  7. ↑ "Women scientists awarded fellowship: Five Mexican researchers were awarded the fellowship for their excellence and work in science", El Universal, 5 December 2016
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