Maritza Lara-López
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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]
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]
