Jaymie Mark Matthews (born 1958 in Chatham, Ontario) is a Canadian astrophysicist, asteroseismologist, and popularizer of science.
He was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1988 to 1990 and Attaché de recherche at the Université de Montreal from 1990 to 1992.
[1] He is the principal investigator for the Canadian Space Agency’s MOST project, a space telescope project yielding observations in asteroseismology and in detection of visible-light signatures from extrasolar planets.
Matthews has made frequent appearances in the news media.
He "posed in multiple guises (from a superhero flying in the ozone layer to an X-ray version of Austin Powers) in the Discovery Channel documentary series "Light: More Than Meets The Eye".