Speaker profile
Dr Heather Fenwick Johnston
PhD
Available for booking
Exeter, Devon, England
100 miles travel distance
Research Astronomer
Summary
Dr Heather Fenwick Johnston is an astrophysicist at the University of Exeter.
Full biography
I am a Royal Society–funded Research Fellow working on exoplanetary systems (PI: Sebastian Marino Estay). My research focuses on planet formation and the architecture and dynamical evolution of planetary systems. Using numerical simulations, I investigate how host stars shape the formation and long-term evolution of planets, explore the physical connection between protoplanetary and debris discs, and seek to understand the processes that govern the emergence and decline of the giant planet occurrence rate.
