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Dan Bahr was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, home to such wonders as the Mayo Clinic and IBM.  Being interested in medicine, he did research during his high school years at the Mayo Clinic's St. Mary's Hospital.  The research was titled on Decapillarization of Muscles with Aging and he received the opportunity to present the research at the International Science and Engineering Fair in 1998.

Dan attended college as a Regents Scholar at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.  It is a small liberal arts college in the Oneota Valley in Northeastern Iowa.  His studies included Mathematics, Physics, and Vocal Music Performance and he received a B.A. degree in 2002 with majors in all three fields.  While at Luther, he also did research with Jeff Wilkerson, Ryan Flynn, and Jami MacLaren on stellar spectroscopy.  The project consisted of designing, building, and testing a spectrometer to be used with a 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and was funded through a grant from the Iowa College Foundation.

During the summer of 2000, Dan had the opportunity to participate in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Indiana University.  He worked at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility with Dr. Robert Pollock.  His research was titled Compression of a Non-Neutral Plasma using a Rotating Electric Field, and he presented his research at the 2000 APS - Divison of Nuclear Physics Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia.  During the Summer of 2001, he participated in an NSF summer school at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and then did research at the University of California, San Diego with Dr. C. Fred Driscoll and Dr. Francois Anderegg.  His research topic was saturation spectroscopy and it was performed in an Iodine chamber using a dye Laser pumped by an argon Laser.  The research was presented at the 2001 APS - Division of Plasma Physics Conference in Long Beach, California, where Dan was given the "Best Undergraduate Poster" Award for his summer research.

Currently, Dan is enrolled in the Ph.D. physics program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  He began work in the DVH group during the summer of 2003.  He is working with superconducting qubits and the work is aimed at building a 2-3 qubit system to study decoherence in quantum computation.