CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN REYNOLDS
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland
College Park, MD20742
Tel: 301-405-2682
Fax: 301-314-9067
email: chris "at" astro.umd.edu Click here
for a PDF (and extended) version of my CV. General Information Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
, University of Maryland, College Park
July 2005 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
, University of Maryland, College Park
August 2001 - June 2005
Sr. Research Associate (Hubble Fellow), JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
September 1998 - August 2001
Postdoctoral Research Associate, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
October 1996 - September 1998 Education
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Institute of Astonomy, Univ. of Cambridge (December 1996)
Thesis title: "X-ray emission and absorption in active galaxies"
Thesis advisor: Professor Andrew C. Fabian, FRS M.A., Trinity College
, University of Cambridge (January 1996) Certificate of Advanced Study in Maths, Univ. of Cambridge (June 1993)
Distinction awarded
B.A. (Theoretical Physics), Trinity College, Univ. of Cambridge (June 1992)
First class with honours awarded Active Research Area
X-ray Observations of Accreting Black Holes
Theory of Accretion Disks around Compact Objects
Astrophysical Manifestations and Effects of Black Hole Spin
X-ray Studies of the Intracluster Medium of galaxy Clusters
Feedback of Supermassive Black Holes on Galaxies and Clusters Honours and awards Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society (2005)
Hubble Fellowship (1998-2001)
Chandra Fellowship (1998, declined in favour of Hubble Fellowship)
Trinity College Cambridge Research Scholarship (1993-1996)
Tyson Medal for Astrophysics (1993, Cambridge)
Trinity College Cambridge Senior Scholarship (1990-1993)
Smith Associates Prize for Physics
(1990, Cambridge)
McPherson Proze for Chemistry (1990, Cambridge) Professional Service Activities Committee assignments
Chandra Users Committee (since June 2003)
SWIFT (NASA) Science Team (since December 2002)
Constellation-X (NASA) Facility Science Team
(since April 2004)
Constellation-X (NASA) AGN Science Definition Team (since 1998)
Advanced X-ray Polarimeter (NASA) Science Working Group
(since February 2003)
Microarcsecond X-ray Imaging Mission (MAXIM) Vision Team (since 2000)
Peer review
NASA Space Science E/PO review (Apr 2004)
NASA CSR review for "Beyond Einstein Probes", chair of black hole sub-panel (Aug 2003)
NSF proposal review, Theoretical Astrophysics panel (March 2003)
Chandra X-ray Observatory Cycle-3 peer review, AGN panel (June 2001)
Chandra X-ray Observatory Cycle-1 peer review, AGN panel (June 1999)
NASA Astro-E Cycle-1 Proposal Review, extragalactic panel (1999)
Hubble Space Telescope peer review, AGN Physics panel (November 1998)
NASA ASCA Cycle-5 Proposal Review, AGN panel (October 1997)
NASA RXTE Cycle-3 Proposal Review, extragalactic panel (November 1997)
Mail-in reviewer of funding proposals for NSF, Israeli Science Foundation & US-CRDF
Regular reviewer of research articles in A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, Nature and Science
Organizing committees for scientific meetings
American Astronomical Society, Washington DC (January 2006)
Indo-US Frontiers of Science meeting, Bangalore, India (January 2005)
Constellation-X Black Hole Science Workshop, NASA-Goddard
(September 2004)
The Emergence of Cosmic Structure, College Park, MD (October 2002)
Black Holes: Theory Confronts Reality, Santa Barbara, CA
(February 2002)
X-ray Emissions from Accreting Black Holes, Johns-Hopkins, Baltimore MD (June 2001)
Rossi-2000, NASA-Goddard, Greenbelt, MD (June 2000)
Membership in professional associations American Astronomical Society (member since January 2000) Teaching/mentoring activities
Instructor for the following courses at the University of Maryland:
ASTR121, Introduction to Astrophysics II
(Spring 2005, 27 students)
ASTR120, Introduction to Astrophysics I
(Fall 2004, 38 students)
ASTR100, Introduction to Astronomy (Spring 2004, 150 students)
ASTR688M, High Energy Astrophysics (Fall 2003, 15 students)
ASTR220, Collisions in Space (Spring 2003, 55 students)
ASTR340, Origins of the Universe
(Fall 2002, 44 students)
ASTR340, Origins of the Universe (Spring 2002, 23 students)
Formal Research Mentoring
Ph.D. thesis advisor to
Laura Brenneman, David Garofalo & John Vernaleo
Serve as formal campus advisor to the following NASA-Goddard based UMd students;
Barbara Mattson, Lisa Winter, Yuxuan Yang
Former postdoctoral advisor to Dr. Barry McKernan (Sept. 2003 - July 2005)
Former graduate 2nd year project advisor to Laura Brenneman, Franziska Koeckert,
Halim Nalbant, John Vernaleo
Former Senior Undergraduate advisor to Jessica Ennis
Other Activities Member of UMd-PhD committees for Yuxuan Yang (chair), James Marshall, David Rupke, Wayne Baumgartner
External PhD examiner for Jonathan Gelbord
(Hopkins), David Ballantyne (Cambridge)
Current External Research Funding NASA Chandra Cycle-6 Guest Observer Program (Principal Investigator)
"The Complex Radio-Galaxy/ICM Interaction in Abell 4059"
$44,200 for period 1/2005-1/2006 NASA Chandra Cycle-6 Guest Observer Program (Principal Investigator)
"The quiescent nucleus and X-ray source population of the nearest elliptical galaxy"
$43,800 for period 5/2005-5/2006
NASA Chandra Cycle-6 Theory Program (Co-Investigator)
"Simulations of radio-galaxies interacting with non-spherical clusters"
$11,000 for period 1/2005-1/2006 NASA Chandra Cycle-5 Theory Program (Principal Investigator)
"Simulations of radio-galaxy/cluster interactions including thermal conduction"
$57,000 for period 1/2004-1/2005
National Science Foundation AST grants program (Principal Investigator)
"The Astrophysics of Spinning Black Holes"
$294,000 for period 10/2002-6/2006
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