Prof. Doug Johnstone, Ph.D.

Doug Johnstone is Principal Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre and adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria.

He studied physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto. After his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by Frank Shu and David Hollenbach, he went to the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics as a postdoc for four years. He briefly held a professorship at the University of Toronto before taking up his position at the National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre in 2001. At the same time he got a position as adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria. He was deputy director of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii for two years.

Doug Johnstone's research is directed to the formation of stars and planets. He has been leading an international effort to measure the time variability of deeply embedded protostars as a novel means to uncover the physical process taking place within the protoplanetary disk, and leading to episodic mass assembly of the central protostar.

Doug Johnstone is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in summer 2020 and is part of the CAS Research Group "The Ionisation Structure of Planet Forming Discs and their Atmospheres" of Prof. Dr. Barbara Ercolano. He will participate in the workshop "Planet Formation Witnesses and Probes: Transition Discs" on 18 and 19 November 2019.