Lucas is an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School. Lucas is a HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar (Howard Hughes Medical Institute).

Lucas completed his doctoral thesis at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry to elucidate molecular mechanisms of chromatin transcription. He joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2021 to investigate nucleic acid-transacting molecular machines in the cell’s nucleus. How work aims to uncover fundamental principles of gene expression and epigenetic inheritance. By exploring how chromatin architecture modulates the flow of genetic information, Lucas’ research provides insights into the regulatory mechanisms that cells use to reliably interpret their genetic instructions.

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