Jason Rowe

Jason is an Assistant Professor at Bishop’s University and the Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics. His science is primary 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 member of the Joint Committee on Space Astronomy of CASCA and a CASCA Westar Speaker.

He is the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his contribution as a team member for the Kepler mission (July 2016).

Graduate Students

• Déreck-Alexandre Lizotte (PhD, co-advised by David Lafrenière)
• Michael Matesic (PhD, co-advised by Laurence Perreault-Levasseur)
• Matthew Lightheart (MSc, 09/2023-)

Former Students

• Michael Matesic (MSc, 2023)
• Déreck-Alexandre Lizotte (MSc)
• Ben Leblanc (MSc, 2021)
• Vera Passegger (MSc, 2011, à l’Université de Vienne en co-supervision)