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Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. His research interests are observational cosmology, gravitational lensing, and the evolution and structure of galaxies. He has 220 refereed publications and 90 conference proceedings, and his work has been supported by $20 million in grants from NASA and the NSF. As a professor, he has won eleven teaching awards, and he has been heavily involved in curriculum and instructional technology development. Impey is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society. He has also been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, the Carnegie Council on Teaching's Arizona Professor of the Year, and he won the American Astronomical Society's career Education Award. He was a co-chair of the Education and Public Outreach Study Group for the Astronomy Decadal Survey of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Impey has written over sixty popular articles on cosmology and astrobiology and co-authored two introductory textbooks. His first popular book "The Living Cosmos," was published in 2007 by Random House. His second and third, called "How It Ends" and "How it Began," both on the subject of cosmology" were published in 2010 and 2012 by Norton. In 2013, his book covering iconic NASA missions called "Dreams of Other Worlds" was published by Princeton University Press, and the following year it won the Eugene Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. Also in 2013, his book on the teaching of cosmology to Buddhist monks in India was published, called "Humble Before the Void." Norton published his book "Beyond," on the future of space travel, in 2016, and his book "Einstein's Monsters," on black holes, in 2018. His book for MIT Press on exoplanets, called "Worlds Without End," is due out in 2022. He published his first novel on Amazon Kindle in 2013, called "Shadow World."
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    • Our Future in Space
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    • A Western Astronomer, His Journey East, and a Remarkable Encounter between Western Science and Tibetan Buddhism
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    • A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
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