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.
[3] She earned a master's degree in 2007 and completed her PhD in 2011,[2] supervised by Jordi Cepa.
[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.
[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.