Jonti Horner

• Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland

I'm an astronomer and astrobiologist based at the University of Southern Queensland, in Toowoomba, Queensland.

I first became interested in astronomy as a five-year-old, as a result of viewing an accidentally recorded episode of the Sky at Night.

I've always been particularly interested in our Solar system, especially the small objects therein - the comets, asteroids and meteors.

In recent years, I've been expanding my research to include astrobiology and the search for, and study of, exoplanets.

• 2014–present Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
• 2010–2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New South Wales
• 2009–2010 Teaching Fellow, University of Durham, UK
• 2006–2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Open University, UK
• 2003–2006 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Bern, Switzerland
• 2000–2003 D.Phil Student, University of Oxford, UK

• 2004 University of Oxford, UK, D.Phil
• 2000 University of Durham, UK, M.Sci Physics and Astronomy

• Astrobiology (020101)
• Stellar Astronomy And Planetary Systems (020110)
• Astronomical And Space Sciences (0201)

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