Lucas Pozzo-Miller, PhD is a neuroscientist working at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he does experimental work on the cellular bases of intellectual disability and social deficits in autism spectrum disorders. Lucas is a native of Argentina, where he studied Biology and finished a doctorate in Neurobiology. Inspired by the work of Jacques Cousteau and a couple of daredevil friends, Lucas learned to SCUBA dive among southern right whales and sea lions in Patagonia. He came to the US for post-doctoral training at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and worked at Hoffmann-LaRoche in NJ, and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. In his spare time out of the lab, Lucas trained as a PADI Dive Master and Assistant Instructor, and took on an interest in underwater photography when housings became available for digital cameras.

As summer research fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, Lucas worked in the same neurobiology lab as Joe DeGiorgis, where they began sharing their common interests in microscopy and SCUBA diving, fueled by their admiration for Cousteau’s vision of bringing the underwater world to everyone. Lucas is wholeheartedly committed to Joe’s vision to merge biology with art, and microscopy with diving to encourage a change in everyone’s perspective for the sake of our world’s future.