Łukasz Wyrzykowski (pron. Woo-cash Vi-zhi-kov-ski) is also a Professor of Astronomy at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, Poland. He received his MSc and PhD in Astronomy from the University of Warsaw, completing his PhD in 2005. He subsequently held research positions at the University of Cambridge, Tel Aviv University, the University of Manchester and Princeton University. He spent ten years at the University of Cambridge, where he contributed to the development and operation of the Gaia Science Alerts system.

He has been a member of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium since 2008 and of the OGLE project since 2000. He is the founder and coordinator of BHTOM.space, a global network of small and medium-sized telescopes supporting coordinated observations of variable and transient sources. He is also a President of the European Astronomical Society of Small Telescopes (easst.eu), an organisation helping amateur astronomers join and contribute to scientific observations of time-domain targets. Lukasz is the author or co-author of nearly 400 scientific publications, with approximately 30,000 citations.

Time-domain astronomy, gravitational microlensing, variable and transient stars, stellar-mass black holes and other compact objects, Gaia as a photometric and astrometric time-domain survey, automated analysis of astronomical time series, machine learning and anomaly detection, classification of light curves, coordinated follow-up observations with global telescope networks, and the detection of rare microlensing signals caused by otherwise invisible black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and planets.