James Owen

About Me

I am currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Astrophysics working at Imperial College London. I'm a visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and lead the ERC funded project PEVAP. Prior to moving to London, I was a Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. I completed my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, investigating protoplanetary disc evolution and dispersal under the supervision of Professor Cathie Clarke. I undertook my undergraduate studies at the Univeristy of Cambridge, Churchill College.

My research interests are within the fields of star and planet formation and exoplanets.