Dr. Christopher O’Dea obtained a BS in Physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Massachusetts. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy. He has faculty positions at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Manitoba where he is now a Senior Scholar. He conducts multi-wavelength observational studies of accreting super-massive black holes in galactic nuclei. He investigates how super-massive black holes influence their host galaxies, and how the galaxies influence the properties of the black hole in turn.