Jaymie Matthews
Professor of Astrophysics, the University of British Columbia.
Last Contribution:
2012
Contributor Biography
Dr. Matthews is the mission scientist leading the Canadian Space Agency’s MOST project, and a professor of astrophysics in the department of physics & astronomy at the University of British Columbia.
He was born in Chatham, Ontario, and obtained his B.Sc. degree at the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and PhD degrees at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Matthews held Isaac Walton Killam and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships at UBC, and an Attaché de Recherche position at the Université de Montreal, before taking on a faculty position at UBC in 1992.
He is a member of the International Astronomical Union's Commission on Variable Stars, and a frequent invited review speaker at meetings around the world, from Prague to Porto, Moscow to Mmbatho (South Africa), Cancun to Carinthia, and Santiago to the Sunshine Coast. He has authored or co- authored more than 100 refereed scientific papers. In 2006, Dr. Matthews was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Astronomy education and public outreach are also very important facets of Dr. Matthews' scientific career. He serves on the Board of the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre (and was its Vice-President for one term). Dr. Matthews was awarded a 1999 Killam Prize for teaching excellence in the UBC Faculty of Science, as well as the 2002 Teaching Prize of the Canadian Association of Physicists.
