Christopher M. Reddy

Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is an American scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI; Woods Hole, MA). He is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry His interests include chemical oceanography, marine pollution, marine natural products, and petroleum geochemistry as well how science is communicated and received by non-scientists. Reddy's is proudly a product Rhode Island public schools from kindergarten to PhD. He received his BS in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Rhode Island College (1992) and then worked in the chemical industry for almost two years. Reddy then attended graduate school at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island and finished his PhD at the latter in 1997 under the advisement of Professor James G. Quinn.

Reddy also earned an executive certificate in Management and Leadership from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010) and completed the course "Leadership in the 21st century: Chaos, Conflict, and Courage" at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2008).

Reddy has published over 170 manuscripts, several book chapters, and holds seven US patents. His research spans from the source, fate and transport of combustion-derived materials, PCBs, and DDT to the environmental chemistry of oil spills, biofuels, plastics, and nanoparticles.

Reddy is the recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2002), an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow (2006), and was named a Kavli Fellow in 2009, 2010, and 2011, which is the National Academy of Science's premiere recognition for distinguished young scientists under 45 years of age, the 2014 C.C. Patterson Award, awarded for leading an innovative breakthrough of fundamental significance in environmental geochemistry, particularly in service to society.

He teaches a course at WHOI and gives workshops for graduate and postdoctoral students on communicating science to non-scientist audiences. Reddy gave a TEDx talk in Woods Hole on how the original Star Trek series can help scientists react during a crisis. It was highlighted as an editor’s pick of the week.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzeBNjHdBzc