Chris Impey is a professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 180 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. Impey is a past vice president of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 70 articles on cosmology and astrobiology, two introductory textbooks, a novel called Shadow World, and eight popular science books.
