Michael Jura

Professor and Vice Chair, Astronomy

Department: Department of Physics and Astronomy

3-907 PAB
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547
Tel: (310) 825-4302
jura@astro.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Education

B.A., Physics, UC Berkeley, 1967

Ph.D., Astronomy, Harvard University, 1971

Research Interests

I have worked on the astrophysics of cold, low density environments.

Now my major current interest is extrasolar planetary systems: their comets, asteroids, and planets. My long term goal is to determine if there is life in these environments.

My team has played a major role in using white dwarfs to study extrasolar minor planets, and we have demonstrated that we can successfully combine observations obtained at many different wavelengths with theoretical models.