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Jason Hyrum Steffen (born May 15, 1975) is an American astrophysicist and assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is also a member of the science team for NASA's Kepler space telescope mission. He worked at Fermilab and Northwestern University for a decade before joining the UNLV faculty. He is known for his work on the discoveries of several exoplanets. He has also developed an alternative method for boarding passengers onto commercial aircraft, known as the Steffen Boarding Method. It has been found to be significantly faster than the "back-to-front" method used by most commercial airlines. He was inspired to begin research on the topic after waiting in an exceptionally long line to board a plane at an airport.

References

1. "Jason Steffen CV" (PDF). University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
2. ^ Steffen, Jason (2006). Detecting New Planets in Transiting Systems (Ph.D.). University of Washington. p. 107. arXiv:astro-ph/0609492.
3. "Jason Steffen". University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
4. Choi, Charles Q. (7 December 2015). "In Alien Solar Systems, Twin Planets Could Share Life". Space.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
5. Bauman, Joe (28 August 2018). "Dramatic results may come from new planet-finder". Petoskey News-Review. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
6. Stromberg, Joseph (25 April 2014). "The way we board airplanes makes no sense". Vox. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
7. Stockton, Nick (4 November 2014). "What's Up With That: Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever". Wired. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
8. "Please be seated". The Economist. 3 September 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2019.

External links

• Faculty page
• Jason Steffen publications indexed by Google Scholar

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