John Mulchaey

Dr. John Mulchaey is Carnegie Science's Deputy for Science and the Director and Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair of the Carnegie Observatories, the institution’s division for astronomy and astrophysics research. Mulchaey oversees the Carnegie Observatories’ main campus in Pasadena, as well as Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. In this role, he also serves on the Board of the next-generation Giant Magellan Telescope, which is under construction at Carnegie’s facility in Chile. Mulchaey is well-regarded for his work on groups and clusters of galaxies—most of which, including our own Milky Way, exist collectively. These systems can be important laboratories for studying the processes that shape galaxies throughout their lifetimes, from their formation through their evolution.