Dr. Christopher Chyba
Professor and Co-Director
Program on Science and Global Security
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
218 Bendheim Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
United States of America
Tel: 609-258-5633
Fax: 609 258 3661
Email:
Christopher Chyba is professor of astrophysical sciences and
international affairs at Princeton University, where he also directs
the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs. His security-related research
emphasizes nuclear and biological weapons policy, proliferation, and
terrorism. His scientific research focuses on solar system exploration
and the search for life elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College,
Chyba studied mathematical physics as a Marshall Scholar at the
University of Cambridge. He served on the White House staff from 1993
to 1995, entering as a White House Fellow on the National Security
Council staff and then serving in the National Security Division of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). After leaving the White
House, he drafted the President's decision directive on responding to
emerging infectious diseases, and authored a report for OSTP in 1998 on
preparing for biological terrorism. He received the Presidential Early
Career Award, "for demonstrating exceptional potential for leadership
at the frontiers of science and technology during the 21st century." He
chaired the Science Definition Team for NASA's Europa Orbiter mission
and served on the executive committee of NASA's Space Science Advisory
Committee, for which he chaired the Solar System Exploration
Subcommittee. Chyba currently serves on the National Academy of
Sciences' Committee for International Security and Arms Control. He is
past chair of the National Research Council (NRC) of the National
Academies' Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars,
and past member of the NRC Committee on Advances in Technology and the
Prevention of their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats.
Before coming to Princeton, Chyba co-directed Stanford University's
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) for five
years, where he was also associate professor of geological and
environmental sciences. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the
SETI Institute. In October 2001, he was named a MacArthur Fellow for
his work in both planetary science and international security. With
Ambassador George Bunn, he is editor of the newly published U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today's Threats (Brookings Institution Press). Ph.D., Cornell University.
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