Alceste Bonanos joined DTM in September as the Vera C. Rubin Fellow. She completed her Ph.D. in astronomy in June at Harvard University. Her astrophysical interests include the extra-galactic distance scale, variable stars, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts. Her primary thesis work involved utilizing observations of detached eclipsing binary stars to refine distances to nearby galaxies. At DTM, Bonanos plans to measure the characteristics of the most massive stars in nearby galaxies, applying her measurements to theories on the formation and evolution of large stars as functions of metallicity.