Lauren McIntosh Managing Director & Science Coordinator and Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University As the Managing Director of CENTAUR, McIntosh facilitates collaboration between the institutions and manages activities and meetings for the center. Outside of CENTAUR, McIntosh studies questions of the density-dependence of the nuclear equation of state and other astrophysically-relevant questions experimentally with the Yennello group. She is also involved in developing isotope production capabilities at Texas A&M.