Chris Lintott
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About
Chris Lintott is a leading figure in the emerging field of citizen science, best known for co-founding the Zooniverse platform, the world’s largest and most successful citizen science web portal. His research spans astrophysics, particularly galaxy formation and the discovery of strong gravitational lenses, and the broader study of how crowdsourcing can accelerate scientific discovery. Lintott’s most-cited work includes a groundbreaking 2013 paper introducing a novel method for assessing surgical performance through crowd-sourced evaluation, which has garnered 164 citations and demonstrates the cross-disciplinary impact of his citizen science approach. In astrophysics, he led the Space Warps project, which engaged citizen scientists in classifying over 11 million images from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, resulting in the discovery of 29 promising new gravitational lens candidates (2015, 115 citations). Beyond these papers, Lintott is the author of the acclaimed popular science book *The Crowd and the Cosmos* and a regular presenter on the BBC’s *The Sky at Night*. His work has fundamentally reshaped how scientists engage the public in research, proving that non-experts can make genuine contributions to cutting-edge science.
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