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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 123 and i10-index of 562) 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).
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*What Constitutes a Miracle? (January 24, 2023).
*Imagine Interstellar (January 22, 2023).
*Trading Disruptive Science for Imagined Realities (January 20, 2023).
*Thirty Years at Harvard University (January 18, 2023).
*Finding Meaning in a Multi Star Family (January 17, 2023).
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*Intergalactic Travel At No Cost (January 14, 2023).
*Thoughts on the 2022 ODNI UAP Report (January 12, 2023).
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*The Claustrophobia of a Closed Universe (January 4, 2023).
*The Unexplored Dimension of the Universe (January 3, 2023).
*The Siraj & Loeb discovery of first interstellar meteor
was named to CNN's list of 2022's extraordinary cosmic revelations and moments in space exploration
(December 27, 2022).
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*Panel discussion on consciousness, Wisconsin (October 6, 2022).
*Lecture on "Cosmic Conciousness", Wisconsin (October 6, 2022).
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*An Extraterrestrial Resolution to the Absurdity of Life (September 28, 2022).
*Understanding Ourselves Thanks to Sentient AI Systems, Medium (September 27, 2022).
*Bright Spot in Orbit Around a Black Hole, Medium (September 25, 2022).
*The Unfamiliar Nature of Interstellar Objects, Medium (September 22, 2022).
*Discovery of a Second Interstellar Meteor: Meter-Size Interstellar Objects Are Much Tougher than Solar System Rocks!, Medium (September 20, 2022).
*Message in an Interstellar Bottle, Medium (September 16, 2022).
*The Universe is Too Big for Us to Ignore It, Medium (September 12, 2022).
*Low-Hanging Fruits of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Medium (September 11, 2022).
*Post-Pandemic Aspirations, Medium (September 9, 2022).
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*A Meeting with `Oumuamua at the Venice Film Festival, Medium (September 3, 2022).
*Advice to Young People, Medium (August 31, 2022).
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*Exploring the Unknown, Medium (August 28, 2022).
*Interstellar Dating, Medium (August 26, 2022).
*The Genius in Our Interstellar Class, Medium (August 25, 2022).
*The Last Year in the Life of a Star, Medium (August 24, 2022).
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