Chris Impey

CHRIS IMPEY is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has more than 450 publications on education, observational cosmology, quasars, and galaxies, and his research has been funded by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has received eleven teaching awards and has taught four online courses with over 420,000 students enrolled and 8 million minutes of video lectures viewed. Chris Impey is a former Vice President of the American Astronomical Society, and he has received its Career Education Prize. He has also been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He has authored over 120 popular articles on cosmology, astrobiology, and education, two textbooks, a novel titled Shadow World, and ten popular science trade books.