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Jason Rowe

Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics
 
Bishop's University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johnson Building Room 2
2600 College Street
Sherbrooke, QC
Canada   J1M 1Z7

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Email: jrowe@ubishops.ca

Research field: Exoplanet.

Description of the research project:
Jason is an Assistant Professor at Bishop's University. His science is primarily focused on finding and characterizing extrasolar planets. He previously worked at Université de Montréal as research scientist within the JWST NIRISS team. He is also associated with the SETI Institute, is a participating scientist of NASA’s Kepler Mission and is a Science Team Member of the MOST Mission. He is also a member of the Joint Committee on Space Astronomy of CASCA and a CASCA Westar Speaker. Jason Rowe recently received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his contribution as a team member for the Kepler mission (July 2016).


List of graduate students:
Matthew Lightheart (M.Sc.), Dereck-Alexandre Lizotte (Ph.D.), Michael Matesic (Ph.D.)