Dr. Jason Rowe appointed as Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics for a second term

Headshot of Dr. Jason Rowe Bishop’s University is pleased to announce that Dr. Jason Rowe, of the Physics and Astronomy Department, has been renewed as the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics for an additional five years.

This support from the National Canada Research Chairs allows Dr. Rowe and Bishop’s students and researchers involved with Dr. Rowe’s Exoplanet Research Lab to continue to discover and characterize exoplanets. Understanding exoplanets’ origins and composition may help determine the existence of other habitable planets and life beyond Earth.

Carina Nebula image taken by the JWST. The image is divided horizontally by a curved line like a mountain range forming orange-brown clouds at the bottom of the image. The top of image is blue with bright stars of different sizes speckled across.

Due to his outstanding contributions to exoplanet astrophysics, Dr. Rowe is among a select group of researchers with access to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which can see farther across space and time than its predecessor, Hubble.

Over the next five years, Dr. Rowe will lead the Canadian POET (Photometric Observations of Extrasolar Transits mission) exoplanet mission and will be a Co-Investigator for NASA’s New Frontiers Pandora mission and for Canada’s CASTOR (The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research) project.

Bishop’s University congratulates Dr. Rowe on this recognition of academic excellence. Learn more about Dr. Rowe’s research here.

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