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Rate My Professor Martin Towner

Curtin University

#3,075 worldwide#2,971 in Australia

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5.08/20/2025

Always kind, respectful, and approachable.

4.05/21/2025

Always approachable and easy to talk to.

5.03/31/2025

Helps students unlock their full potential.

4.02/27/2025

A true mentor who cares about success.

5.02/10/2025

Makes complex ideas simple and clear.

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About Martin

Dr. Martin Towner serves as a Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, focusing on meteoritics and extraterrestrial geology. He earned his BSc (Hons) in Physics and PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Bristol, completing the doctorate in 1995. Towner joined Curtin University in 2012 as a Senior Research Fellow and has since become a key figure in planetary science research, particularly as Field Operations Chief for the Desert Fireball Network (DFN), a continent-scale camera array designed to observe, triangulate, and recover meteorites. His leadership has enabled the successful recovery of several observed meteorite falls, including the Murrili meteorite from Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) in 2015, the Halloween meteorite from a Western Australian farm in 2016, Puli Ilkaringuru in recent years, and two meteorites in 2020 from November 2019 and earlier events. These recoveries have provided critical samples for studying Solar System origins, meteoroid populations, and dynamical properties.