Danny Jacobs performs research focused on the detection and characterization of 21cm
fluctuations in the early universe and developing future high-performance radio arrays capable of precision
cosmology. He is a co-I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, a ground based precursor to the
Cosmic Dawn Mapper, where he serves as Commissioning Scientist. He is the PI of the External Calibrator
for Hydrogen Observatories (ECHO; Jacobs et al. 2017), an unmanned airborne calibration transmitter. Prof.
Jacobs is the Systems Engineer for the Star-Planet Activity Research Cubesat (SPARCS), a smallsat UV
telescope scheduled for launch in 2021 to characterize the statistics of flares from M-dwarf stars, faculty advisor to student cubesat projects, and director of ASU’s smallsat ground station.

Danny was born and raised in Omaha Nebraska graduating from Central High School, where he was captain of the Debate Squad. He has lived with his small family in Montana, Pennsylvania, and twice in New Mexico.