Dan Burns – Janyaa

Dan Burns teaches physics at Los Gatos High School in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives with his wife and two children. Dan is a Faculty Scholar at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he conducts teacher workshops and gives scientific talks for the general public highlighting lab research.

Dan leads PTSOS, an organization providing support to new physics teachers. A video of one of the PTSOS workshops about gravity went viral on YouTube and now has over 26 million views. Dan has done workshops and developed curriculum for NASA, the USGS, the SETI Institute, the SCCOE, EnCorps, and NMSI.

Dan was selected by NASA to be an Airborne Ambassador for Astronomy and flew into the stratosphere aboard NASA’s Sofia 747. Prior to becoming a teacher Dan was an aerospace engineer for Lockheed/Martin where he developed advanced space systems. Dan has a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois, a Physical Science teaching credential from San Jose State University, and a Master’s in Instructional Technology from the American College of Education.