Christopher Stephen Reynolds is a British-American astronomer who is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of Maryland.
He received a Bachelor's in Theoretical Physics in 1992 and a Master's in Mathematics in 1993, winning the Tyson medal.
He remained in Cambridge to pursue his PhD under Andrew Fabian at the Institute of Astronomy, where he graduated in 1996 with his thesis entitled X-ray emission and absorption in active galaxies.
[1] In 1993 Reynolds moved to JILA at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he remained for five years, the final three as a Hubble Fellow.
[2] He served as deputy director of the institute from 2018 to 2022 and was a fellow of Sidney Sussex College.