[1] Jafferis was privately home-schooled and at age 14 began his studies at Yale University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 2001.
[2][3] Jafferis was from 2007 to 2010 a post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers University[citation needed] and from June 2010 to March 2011 a temporary member at the Institute for Advanced Study.
[1] In 2008, Jafferis was, with Ofer Aharony,[5] Oren Bergman,[6] and Juan Maldacena,[7] one of the discoverers of the AdS-CFT correspondence of superconformal (N=6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to M-theory in
[10] In 2016, with Ping Gao[11] and Aron C. Wall, Jafferis proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter[12][13] with a description mathematically equivalent to quantum teleportation.
In 2012 Jafferis received the Henry Primakoff Award of the American Physical Society for "construction and study of three-dimensionals supersymmetric quantum field theories.