Dan Jaffe

University of Texas

Daniel Jaffe is the Vice President for Research and Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in the Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin. As Vice President, he oversees the University’s research infrastructure and several of its interdisciplinary centers and institutes including the Applied Research Laboratory, the Oden Institute, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the Energy Institute. Jaffe’s research encompasses device development, instrumentation, and observations geared toward understanding how stars and planetary systems form and evolve. Prof. Jaffe’s astronomical research employs high resolution infrared spectroscopy to look at the properties of protostars and of the disks around them that are forming planets.