Charles Liu is a Professor of Astrophysics at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island and currently serves as chair of CSI’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is also an associate with the Department of Astrophysics and Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and president of the Astronomical Society of New York.
Charles Liu is an extragalactic observational astronomer. His research focuses on colliding galaxies, starburst galaxies, and the star formation history of the universe, and wanders into the realm of quasars and active galactic nuclei. A frequent and beloved guest on StarTalk, Charles received the 2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for his book One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos and in 2020 was named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.