Chris Clemens is Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences there. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Clemens studies white dwarf stars, and his recent projects include seismology of oscillating white dwarf stars and the study of exoplanetary rubble that forms around white dwarfs when asteroids, comets or planets are broken up by high gravity. He also builds spectrographs and their components for observatories around the world. He has authored over 100 research papers and holds four patents. He has also co-founded two startup companies, MegaWatt Solar, Inc., and Syzygy Optics, LLC.

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