Christopher J. Corbally

CHRISTOPHER J. CORBALLY, S.J., Ph.D., is a Jesuit priest and an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory Research Group, for which he has served as Vice Director, and liaison to its headquarters at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. He is an Adjunct Associate Astronomer at the Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona, and ministers to a wide variety of Catholics, including Native Americans, in Tucson, Arizona. He earned his doctorate in Astronomy at the University of Toronto in 1983, and his research interests include stellar spectral classification, multiple star systems, peculiar and metal-weak stars especially those with lambda Boötis characteristics, activity in solar-type stars, galactic structure and star formation regions, and telescope technology. Dr. Corbally's interest in issues of Science and Religion is long-standing. He is a past-president of IRAS, the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, and the Co-Founder of The Human Sentience Project, LLC.