Jeffrey Hoffman

**Specialization and Research Interests:** Human Space Flight Operations, Space Flight Technology, Human-Machine Interactions, Extravehicular Activity, Conducting Laboratory Research in Space **Teaching Interests:**Space Systems Design, Space Policy Dr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman is Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Dr. Hoffman received a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Amherst College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1971. He subsequently received a M.Sc. in Materials Science from Rice University in 1988. He spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, after which he worked on the research staff of the Physics Department at Leicester University in the UK (1972-1975) and MIT’s Center for Space Research (1975-1978). He was a NASA astronaut from 1978-1997, having made five space flights and becoming the first astronaut to log 1000 hours of flight ti