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| Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more).
He received a PhD in Physics from
the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986),
led the first international project supported by
the Strategic
Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a
long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
(1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and nearly a thousand papers (with
h-index
of 119 and i10-index of 543) on a wide range of topics, including
black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and
the future of the Universe.
Loeb is the Director of
the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present)
within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
, and also serves as the Head of
the Galileo Project (2021-present).
He had been the
longest serving Chair of Harvard's
Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of
Harvard's Black
Hole Initiative (2016-2021).
He is
an elected fellow of
the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences,
the American
Physical Society, and
the International Academy of
Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House, a former chair of
the Board
on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and
a current member of the Advisory Board for "Einstein: Visualize
the Impossible" of the Hebrew University.
He also chairs the Advisory Committee for
the Breakthrough
Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director
for
all Initiatives
of the Breakthrough Prize
Foundation. In
2012, TIME
magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in
space and in 2020
Loeb was
selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last
decade. Click here
for Loeb's commentaries.
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*Extraterrestrial: 28 editions in 25 languages worldwide (2021).
*Extraterrestrial summary, HMH (2021).
IN THE NEWS:
*Extinction of Gamma-Rays by Sunlight, Medium (July 1, 2022).
*Quantum Gravity Engineers, Medium (June 29, 2022).
*Will Humanity Be Saved by Deus Ex Machina?, Medium (June 27, 2022).
*Galileo Would Have Been Proud of Our Project, Medium (June 25, 2022).
*Recalculating Academia, Medium (June 22, 2022).
*Three Unsung Heroes from Our Cosmic Past, Medium (June 20, 2022).
*Survival of the Optimist, Medium (June 15, 2022).
*Could UAP Have Kinship to Our AI Systems, Medium (June 14, 2022).
*Music gift from Amir Siraj, Medium (June 14, 2022).
*Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, Medium (June 11, 2022).
*The Bliss of an Academic Family, Medium (June 9, 2022).
*The Beginner's Mind of Machine Learning, Medium (June 4, 2022).
*Technological Selection in the Race to Interstellar Space, Medium (June 2, 2022).
*Quantum Tunneling of Dark Matter, Medium (May 31, 2022).
*With Age Comes Wisdom, Medium (May 29, 2022).
*The Trading Card of Human Civilization, Medium (May 25, 2022).
*Galactic Kites, Medium (May 21, 2022).
*Thoughts About the First Congressional Hearing on Unidentified Objects in Half a Century, Medium (May 18, 2022).
*Alleviating the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation, Medium (May 15, 2022).
*Intergalactic Travel With MOND Rockets, RNAAS (May 14, 2022).
*Congressional Hearing: Pushing the Frontiers of Science With Government Data, The Hill (May 13, 2022).
*Pushing the Frontiers of Science With Government Data, Medium (May 11, 2022).
*Sound of CNEOS 2014-01-08Seismometer on Manus Island
(May 11, 2022).
*Fishing In Extraterrestrial Seas, Medium (May 6, 2022).
*Cherish Those Junior Moments, Medium (May 3, 2022).
*How to guide our life?, Medium (May 1, 2022).
*The Memory Effect, Medium (April 25, 2022).
*The New Horizons Meteor, Medium (April 22, 2022).
*The First Interstellar Meteor Had a Larger Material Strength Than Iron Meteorites, Medium (April 18, 2022).
*Interstellar Meteor Debate, New York Times (April 15, 2022).
*Scooping Interstellar Fragments from the Ocean Floor, Medium (April 13, 2022).
*Fix the Money to Leave the World, Bitcoin 2022 (April 8, 2022).
*Annoncing the Closest and Farthest Objects from Outside Our Cosmic Neighborhood on the Same Week, Medium (April 7, 2022).
*The Most Distant Galaxy Yet, New York Times (April 7, 2022).
*The First Interstellar Meteor, DoD (April 6, 2022).
*How Bright Can a Source in the Sky Be?, Medium (April 2, 2022).
*The Scientific Method, Medium (March 31, 2022).
*What is Missing In Academia?, Medium (March 28, 2022).
*What is Dark Matter?, Medium (March 23, 2022).
*The Galileo Project, BBC Science Focus (March 21, 2022).
*The Silence of Snow, Medium (March 20, 2022).
*The Substitute for the drake Equation in Extraterrestrial Space Archaeology, Medium (March 16, 2022).
*Spurious Radial Migration in Milky
Way, RNAAS (March 16, 2022).
*The Future of Science, The Marginalia Review of Books (March 11, 2022).
*The First Interstellar Meteor, Medium (March 10, 2022).
*Oh, if I could talk to the aliens, Harvard Gazette (March 8, 2022).
*Intelligent Communication, Medium (March 8, 2022).
*Communicating with Extraterrestrials, Medium (March 6, 2022).
*Life Under the Ice, Medium (February 26, 2022).
*What Do the Best Scientists in the Milky Way Know?, Medium (February 23, 2022).
*Milky-Way Gifts to Life Expectancy, Medium (February 20, 2022).
*Fun Facts About Neptune, Newsweek (February 20, 2022).
*Mind the Gap: Cosmic Stoicism, Medium (February 16, 2022).
*The Unidentified, 60 Minutes Australia (February 15, 2022).
*Our Biggest Global Challenge, The Hill (February 14, 2022).
*Stellar Engines, The DeBrief (February 9, 2022).
*Mysterious 18-Minute Radio Pulses Are Not from "Little Green Men", Medium (February 8, 2022).
*Galileo Project, The Guardian (February 5, 2022).
*Why NASA Should Build An Even Bigger Telescope, The Hill (February 3, 2022).
*Galaxies Expand As They Emit Light, Medium (February 3, 2022).
*Q&A on Galileo Project, Jesse Michels, American Alchemy (January 29, 2022).
*Two Choices in Space Exploration, The Hill (January 27, 2022).
*Paranormal Activity, Science (January 27, 2022).
*Can We Find UAP from Above?, The Hill (January 24, 2022).
*Life Lessons After Sixty Years, Medium (January 24, 2022).
*Chasing Oumuamua, Newsweek (January 21, 2022).
*An Interview in the Metaverse, The Hill (January 18, 2022).
*Can Intelligence be Digitized?, Medium (January 17, 2022).
*Interview with an NFT, Marc Fernandez, Club Metaverse (January 13, 2022).
*The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Technology, Vimeo (January 12, 2022).
*Extraordinary Evidence Requires Extraordinary Funding, The DeBrief (January 11, 2022).
*Are We Investing Trillions on What Matters?, The Hill (January 8, 2022).
*Virtual Realities May Solve Fermi's Paradox About Extraterrestrials, The Hill (January 5, 2022).
*Looking Through the Windows, Medium (January 2, 2022).
*Reinvigorating the UAP Legacy of Senator Harry Reid, The Hill (January 1, 2022).
*Top 50 SpaceTech Leaders, SpaceTech Analytics (2021).
*News Which Went Over Our Heads, Boston Globe Magazine (December 29, 2021).
*Science Teaches Us Modesty, Instagram (December 29, 2021).
*JWST, The Daily Galaxy (December 28, 2021).
*Sec. 1683 of NDAA 2022, US Congress (December 28, 2021).
*The Launch of JWST, TV News (December 28, 2021).
*The Science of JWST, Al Jazeera English (December 27, 2021).
*We Need Scientific Analysis of Satellite Data on UAP, Medium (December 27, 2021).
*Fishing in Interstellar Space, The DeBrief (December 26, 2021).
*Against the Wind, Medium (December 22, 2021).
*Virtual Reality Makes Us Egotistical and Science Demands Humility, The DeBrief (December 22, 2021).
*Will We Soon Rewrite Textbooks on Our Place in the Universe?, The Hill (December 19, 2021).
*The Tricky Reality of Reality, Medium (December 17, 2021).
*Superhumanize, Podcast (December 15, 2021).
*"Extraterrestrial selected to longlist of PEN/E.O WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE AWARD", BookRiot (December 15, 2021).
*Oumuamua is among "Best of the Year" Phys.org articles of 2021", Phys.org (December 14, 2021).
*Dating the Next `Oumuamua, The DeBrief (December 14, 2021).
*Choosing Risks and Looking for ET, Medium (December 10, 2021).
*Risk Assessment in Mainstream Science, The Hill (December 8, 2021).
*The Fly on the Porch of My Home, The DeBrief (December 2, 2021).
*"Extraterrestrial" is number one among recommended space books for the holidays, Interesting Engineering (November 28, 2021).
*"Health Risks of Space Tourism: Is It Responsible to Send Humans to Mars?", The Hill (November 27, 2021).
*"AI-Scientists May Usher In a Bright Future in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence", The Debrief (November 24, 2021).
*"When Did Life Start in the Universe?", Scientific American (November 24, 2021).
*"Space Exploration and Spirituality", Medium (November 21, 2021).
*"Why Science and Religion Come Together When Discussing Extraterrestrial Life", The Hill (November 18, 2021).
*"Should We Trust Our Future AI Scientists?", Medium (November 16, 2021).
*"Extraterrestrial" is an Best Science Book of the Year and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, Amazon (November 16, 2021).
*"Extraterrestrials and Religion", Medium (November 14, 2021).
*"Attention to Anomalies", Inference (November 12, 2021).
*"Our Future In Space", National Cathedral, Washington DC (November 10, 2021).
*"Everthing You Need to Know About the Galileo Project", Medium (November 7, 2021).
*"Mention of Galileo Project by the US Senate", Congressional Record (November 5, 2021).
*"Our Universe Inspires Modesty, Curiosity and Calm", Medium (November 5, 2021).
*"Book Review: Life In The Cosmos", The Inquisitive Biologist (November 5, 2021).
*"The Messenger", Boston Magazine (November 2, 2021).
*"Could Our Universe Be Someones Chemistry Project?", Universe Today (November 2, 2021).
*"Our Future In Space", Medium (November 2, 2021).
*"Peace BAR Festival 2021,
In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the UN International Day of Peace", Kyung Hee University, Global Academy for Future Civilizations (October 29, 2021).
*"Let Many Flowers Bloom In Space", Medium (October 27, 2021).
*"Our Avatars in Space", Medium (October 25, 2021).
*"On the Possibility of an Artificial Origin for `Oumuamua", Astrobiology (October 19, 2021).
*"Protocol for Contact with Extraterrestrial Equipment", Medium (October 17, 2021).
*"Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?", Scientific American (October 15, 2021).
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