Dr. Christopher Carr

Christopher Carr is an engineer/scientist with training in aero/astro and electrical engineering, medical physics, and molecular biology. His lab applies single molecule detection technologies to instrument development for life detection beyond Earth. He is a Research Scientist at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Molecular Biology, and a Scott M. Johnson Fellow in the U.S. Japan Leadership Program. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in summer 2020, with a joint appointment in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) and School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS).