Chris Lintott
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Chris Lintott speaking at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2008
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| Born | Christopher John Lintott 26 November 1980 Torbay |
| Citizenship | British |
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Website "Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics/Citizen Science Lead". |
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Christopher John "Chris" Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at Oxford University. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience. He is the primary presenter of the BBC series The Sky at Night, having previously been co-presenter with Sir Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. Lintott co-authored Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May.
Lintott attended Torquay Boys' Grammar School in Devon. In 1999, while still at school, he won a $500 Earth and Space Sciences award and the Priscilla and Bart Bok Honorable Mention Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for an article on 'Cosmic dust Around Young stellar objects'. This came from a six-week project at the University of Hertfordshire funded by a Nuffield bursary. He read Natural Sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 2006 received a PhD in astrophysics from University College London, for his thesis "Analysis of early stages of star formation".
Lintott is currently co-director of the Programme on Computational Cosmology and Citizen Science Project Lead in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was the Director of Citizen Science Initiatives at the Adler Planetarium from 2010 until 2012.
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