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After a 1988 BSc in Physics from the University of Leeds, an exchange scholarship MSc from the University of Alberta, work as a subeditor at Blackwell Scientific and setting up MadLab an educational electronics company he began his research career as a PhD student based at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. His 1995 thesis from the University of Edinburgh was titled "The Coolest Dwarfs". He then moved to the University of Tokyo as a European Commission research fellow to work with Professor Takashi Tsuji on the model atmospheres of cool dwarf stars. During that time he worked on the inclusion of dust in model atmospheres and co-founded the Anglo-Australian Planet Search. In 1997, he moved to Liverpool John Moores University and in 2000 also a position at the University of Liverpool. He was closely involved with founding and running a joint Physics degree, a suite of ten online distance learning courses and the Liverpool Robotic Telescope. He moved to Hertfordshire in 2004 and has extended his work into instrumentation with the development of the Bayfordbury Observatory, led the IoP accreditation of the University of Hertfordshire Physics degree and chaired the inaugural European Week of Astronomy and Space Science. In his research he has been fortunate to have great collaborators and so be able to make a contribution to the burgeoning fields of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. Thus Hertfordshire can claim close involvement in the discovery and characterisation of a significant fraction of the nearby extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs including the discovery of planets orbiting the Sun's nearest neighbours, Proxima Centauri and Barnard's star.
He has recent appointments as a Distinguished Visitor of the Australian Astronomical Observatory, Visiting Investigator in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Visiting Professor of the National Observatory of Ukraine, President's International Visiting Scientist at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, and an Associate of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.
Research interests
Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs and Low-mass stars with particular focus on spectroscopic analysis
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Extreme objects in the Local Bubble
Jones, H. (PI) & Forbrich, J. (CoI)
31/03/24 → 30/03/26
Project: Research
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Parallaxes of faint T and Y dwarfs to constrain low-mass formation mechanisms
Jones, H. (PI)
1/12/23 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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Blinded by the Light
Nelson, S. (PI), Jones, H. (CoI), Martin, B. (CoI) & O'Flynn, N. (CoI)
1/06/23 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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RedDots: Planetary masses in the GJ1061 system from planet-planet interaction
Dreizler, S., Jeffers, S. V., Liebing, F., Gorrini, P., Haswell, C. A., Gaidos, E., Barnes, J. R., Sordo, F. D., Jones, H. R. A., Rodríguez, E. & Tsapras, Y., 6 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 698, June 2025, p. 1-16 16 p., A114.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lessons learned from the detection of wide companions by radial velocity and astrometry
Feng, F., Xiao, G.-Y., Jones, H. R. A., Jenkins, J. S., Pena, P. & Sun, Q., 1 Jun 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). 539, 4, p. 3180–3200 21 p., staf689.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Benchmark brown dwarfs – I. A blue M2 + T5 wide binary and a probable young M4 + [T7 + T8] hierarchical triple
Zhang, Z. H., Navarete, F., Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C., Jones, H. R. A., Burgasser, A. J., Cruz, P., Marocco, F., Lodieu, N., Shan, Y., Gauza, B., Raddi, R., Huang, M. R., Smart, R. L., Baig, S., Cheng, G. & Pinfield, D. J., 30 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). staf895.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Gaia Ultracool Dwarf Sample -- VI. Spectral Types and Properties of 51 Ultracool Dwarfs
Cheng, G., Jones, H. R. A., Smart, R. L., Marocco, F., Cooper, W. J., Burgasser, A., Beamin, J. C., Pinfield, D. J., Gagné, J. & Moranta, L., 30 Apr 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). 538, 4, p. 3144–3176 33 p., staf432.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Half a Million M Dwarf Stars Characterized Using Domain-Adapted Spectral Analysis
Zhang, S., Zhang, H.-W., Ting, Y.-S., Wang, R., O'Briain, T., Jones, H. R. A., Homeier, D. & Luo, A.-L., 1 Apr 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 277, 2, p. 1-18 18 p., 47.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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