Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Princeton University

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He graduated from Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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 in 1982, and studied mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 as a Marshall Scholar. He then received his Ph.D. in Astronomy, with an emphasis in Planetary Science, from Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in 1991.http://www-01wws.princeton.edu/people/data/c/cchyba/CV.pdf He was a White House Fellow on the National Security Council

National Security Council

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 staff, and then serving in the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Office of Science and Technology Policy

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 (OSTP) from 1993 to 1995. He was a member of the SETI

SETI

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Some of the most well known projects are run by the SETI Institute. SETI projects use scientific methods to search for intelligent life...

 Institute Board of Trustees from 2005 - 2007.

Works

• "Commencement Address", June 1, 2003
• "Contingency and the Cosmic Prospective", The new astronomy: opening the electromagnetic window and expanding our view of planet earth, Editor D. Wayne Orchiston, Springer, 2005, ISBN 9781402037238
• Comets and the origin and evolution of life, Editors Paul J. Thomas, Christopher F. Chyba, Springer, 2006, ISBN 9783540330868
• U.S. nuclear weapons policy: confronting today's threats, Editors George Bunn, Christopher F. Chyba, William James Perry, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, Calif., 2006, ISBN 9780815713654

External links

• "Christopher Chyba", Huffington Post