j l birkby

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. I work on the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and cool stars. I am keenly interested in Origins of Life research. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy in Amsterdam, and before that I was a NASA Sagan Fellow at the Harvard &Smithsonian | Center for Astrophysics. My first postdoctoral position was at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, where I worked with Prof Ignas Snellen and the Leiden exoplanet group. I obtained my PhD in astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Dr Simon Hodgkin. My PhD thesis focused on providing observational constraints on low-mass stellar evolution and planet formation via the study of M-dwarf eclipsing binaries and transiting planets in young open clusters and in wide-field infrared surveys. Prior to my PhD, I was an undergraduate at Durham University, where I obtained a MSci in Physics and Astronomy.