A dynamical search for habitable worlds and solar system analogues

The search for habitable worlds around other stars is an area of immense interest to the exoplanetary science community. However, with the intractably large sample of known exoplanet systems, how do we decide which are the most promising locations to look to find Earth-like planets? This thesis explores this question by numerically simulating the most scientifically interesting subset of exoplanetary systems, and determining whether as yet undetected planets of astrobiological interest could reside within them. This work also takes the important step of determining which of these planets would also be detectable with the next generation of observational instruments.