Rate My Professor Christopher Walker

Walker's research interests encompass star and planet formation, the life cycle of the interstellar medium, astronomical instrumentation, balloon-borne telescopes, space-based telescopes, and CubeSats, with a focus on galactic astronomy, instrumentation and detectors, stars and stellar astrophysics, star formation and the interstellar medium, and terahertz astronomy. He authored the textbook Terahertz Astronomy (CRC Press, 2015) and has co-authored over 130 papers, including Kloosterman et al., Hot Electron Bolometer Heterodyne Receiver with a 4.7 THz Quantum Cascade Laser as a Local Oscillator, Applied Physics Letters 102, 011123 (2013); Bussmann et al., A CO (J=3-2) Outflow Survey of the Elias 29 Region, Astrophysical Journal 657, L33 (2007); Hedden et al., Star Formation in the Northern Cloud Complex of NGC 2264, Astrophysical Journal 645, 345 (2006); and Kulesa et al., Large-Scale CO and [CI] Emission in the Rho Ophiuchi Molecular Cloud, Astrophysical Journal 625, 194 (2005). Walker has contributed to instruments for the Heinrich Hertz Telescope and Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory, and leads efforts on missions such as the GUSTO balloon-borne observatory and CatSat CubeSat. He teaches courses including Life in the Universe (ASTR 202), Physical Universe (ASTR 170B), and Radio Astronomy (ASTR 585).