Chris Davis is a Staff Astronomer at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii. Brought up in Yorkshire, England, Chris graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and worked as a research scientist in Germany and Ireland before moving to the Big Island with his wife, Caroline, and two kids, Tom and Emma, in 1997.

He spends much of his time helping UKIRT's visiting astronomers develop and execute their observing projects, though he also conducts his own research, having authored or co-authored over a hundred science articles since he graduated in 1992. Using UKIRT and other telescopes in Hawaii and elsewhere around the world, he studies the physics and chemistry of the spectacular jets of gas produced by, not only very young, but also very old stars. These jets can travel at millions of miles an hour, and travel a light year or more from the star that powers them.

When not studying the stars, Chris is usually not far from a soccer field. He plays regularly in Hilo's over-35s Makule Soccer League, and usually coaches his daughter's "American Youth Soccer Organisation" (AYSO) team down on Hilo's bay front.