Chris Impey

Tucson, Arizona, Arizona United States

Education

Chris Impey is University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has 170 refereed publications, and his research has been supported by $20 million in grants from NASA and the NSF. He has won eleven teaching awards, and he is teaching an online class with over 15,000 enrolled. Impey is a past VP of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, the Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 40 popular articles on cosmology and astrobiolo