Jaymie Mark Matthews (born 1958 inChatham, Ontario) is a Canadian astrophysicist, asteroseismologist, and popularizer of science.[1][2]
Matthews received, from theUniversity of Toronto, in 1979 his bachelor's degree and from, theUniversity of Western Ontario's department of astronomy & astrophysics, master's degree in 1982 and doctoral degree in 1987. He was a postdoc at theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC) from 1988 to 1990 andAttaché de recherche at theUniversité de Montreal from 1990 to 1992. At UBC, Matthews has held the position of assistant professor from 1992 to 2000, associate professor from 2000 to 2008, and full professor from 2008 to the present.[1]
He is the principal investigator for theCanadian Space Agency’sMOST project, a space telescope project yielding observations in asteroseismology and in detection of visible-light signatures from extrasolar planets. He has been a member of several Canadian scientific committees and has been an invited speaker at many international scientific meetings. Matthews has made frequent appearances in the news media. He "posed in multiple guises (from a superhero flying in the ozone layer to an X-ray version of Austin Powers) in theDiscovery Channel documentary series "Light: More Than Meets The Eye"."[1]
