Damir Dzhafarov studies computability theory and reverse mathematics. He received his doctorate in 2011 from the University of Chicago, as a student of Profs. Robert Soare, Denis Hirschfeldt, and Antonio Montalban, and then held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University and at the University of California-Berkeley. In 2013 he joined the mathematics faculty of the University of Connecticut.