| 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 about 800 papers (with
an h-index
of 116) 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:
*"Be Kind to Extraterrestrial Guests", Medium (October 5, 2021).
*"Microbes, Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence", Scientific American (October 2, 2021).
*"Our Ego Trip In The Cosmos", Medium (September 29, 2021).
*"The Play Is Not About Us", Medium (September 27, 2021).
*"How To Search for Life as We Don't Know It", Medium (September 26, 2021).
*"Rising Above the Rubble", Medium (September 24, 2021).
*Profile, Smithsonian Magazine (October, 2021).
*Q&A with Sarah Scoles, National Book Festival, Library of Congress (Sep 22, 2021).
*Audio interview by Kobi Barkay (in hebrew), Israel Radio Kan (September 23, 2021).
*"Imagination Is Not a Consequence of Formal Education", Medium (September 21, 2021).
*"The Next Sunrise Will Look Different", Medium (September 20, 2021).
*"Astronomers Should Be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects on the Sky", Scientific American (September 19, 2021).
*"Superconductivity and Faraday's Law", Professor Lewin (September 18, 2021).
*"A conversation with Avi Loeb (in hebrew)", Kan, Israel (September 18, 2021).
*"Will Autonomous AI Systems Replace Astronauts?", Medium (September 17, 2021).
*"Note to Branson and Bezos: Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Impressed", Scientific American (September 15, 2021).
*"Galileo Project: Religion, Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life", The Hill (September 15, 2021).
*"The Wonder of Avi Loeb", Smithsonian Magazine (October, 2021).
*"The `Adults in the Room' Could Be Scientists", Medium (September 14, 2021).
*"A Sermon About Extraterrestrials", Medium (September 14, 2021).
*"Looking for Interstellar Monuments", Scientific American (September 11, 2021).
*"National Book Festival Appearance", Library of Congress (September 22, 2021).
*"Lecture, Book Signing and Film", Coolidge Corner (October 18, 2021).
*"High Holidays Sermon about `Extraterrestrial'", Rabbi Rob Dobrusin, Ann Arbor, MI (September 12, 2021).
*"To Look or Not To Look, That Is The Question!", Scientific American (September 6, 2021).
*"Galileo Project", The Hill (August 28, 2021).
*"Some `Defenders' of Science Might Actually Be Hurting It", Medium (August 24, 2021).
*"ET Search", BILD, Germany (August 23, 2021).
*"Interstellar Objects Outnumber Oort Cloud Objects", Daily Mail, UK (August 23, 2021).
*"When Will We Hear From Extraterrestrials?", Scientific American (August 15, 2021).
*"The Galileo Project", Israeli TV (August 4, 2021).
*"The Galileo Project", All Things Considered, NPR/WGBH (August 3, 2021).
*"To Understand UAP We Need Megapixel Imagery", Scientific American (August 2, 2021).
*"The Galileo Project", The Guardian, UK (July 27, 2021).
*"Review of `Life In The Cosmos' textbook", pressreader (July 27, 2021).
*"Announcing A New Plan for Solving the Mystery of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", Scientific American (July 26, 2021).
*"Harvard Astronomer Revolutionizes Search for Alien Life with New Project", Jerusalem Post (July 26, 2021).
*"Q&A at Goldman Sachs", YouTube (July 13, 2021).
* King Princess Learns About Extreaterrestrials, V Wanna Know Podcast with Mathias Rosenzweig (July 13, 2021).
*"How to Tell if Extraterrestrial Visitors Are Friend or Foe", Scientific American (July 12, 2021).
*Podcast on "Extraterrestrials", The Metaphysical Circus, Israeli Broadcast Corporation (in hebrew) (July 8, 2021).
*"How Humanity Can Earn the Respect of Extraterrestrials", Scientific American (July 3, 2021).
*Q&A, Humo-Magazine, Belgium (June 28, 2021).
*Pentagon Report, Jersualem Post (June 27, 2021).
*Conversation with Jamarl Thomas, Radio (Washington DC) (June 26, 2021).
*Interview in "Good Morning Israel", Israel (June 26, 2021).
*Are We Alone?, Der Spiegel cover story (in German) (June 26, 2021).
*Scientists Should Identify the Unidentified in the Pentagon Report, The Hill (June 25, 2021).
*"Pentagon Report", Newsweek (June 24, 2021).
*"What We Can Learn From Studying UFOs", Scientific American (June 24, 2021).
*"World Minds Forum", Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Germany (June 23, 2021).
*"A Possible Link Between `Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", Scientific American (June 22, 2021).
*"The Willingness to Question", Thrive Global (June 22, 2021).
*"ET, Israel and Dark Matter", Jake Newfield Podcast, Spotify (June 22, 2021).
*"Identifying the Unidentified", Event Horizon, YouTube (June 21, 2021).
*"Knowledge", FOCUS Magazine, Germany (June 25, 2021).
*"Intelligent Life Beyond Earth", York Festival of Ideas (June 20, 2021).
*"How to Detect Heat from Extraterrestrial Probes in Our Solar System", Scientific American (June 17, 2021).
*"Alien Civilizations", Masha Glozman, Ha'aretz Online (June 16, 2021).
*Creativity, Becky Arbiv and Rohin Maganti, "After Office Hours" Podcast (June 15, 2021).
*Searching for City Lights on Other Planets, Scientific American (June 13, 2021).
*In the Stars, Worlds Apart (June 13, 2021).
*Cool Science, Radio interview (June 11, 2021).
*What We Know About UFOs, MPR News, Minnesota (June 10, 2021).
*UAP Reports, Thomas Reintjes, Germany's National Public Radio (June 9, 2021).
*ET (in hebrew), Ha'aretz (June 9, 2021).
*Great Powers of the Galaxy, Ken Silber, Splice Today (June 9, 2021).
*Pentagon UAP Report, Podcast with Andrew Crystal (June 8, 2021).
*Future of Humanity, Podcast with Lucas Perry (June 8, 2021).
*Death by a Primordial Black Hole, Scientific American
(June 6, 2021).
*Artificial Lights on Proxima b, Universe Today (June 6, 2021).
*Creative Thinking Is Not For The Faint of Heart, Scientific American (June 3, 2021).
*Search for Life, Chris Lydon, WBUR Radio (June 3, 2021).
*Rethinking Civil Society, University of Goettingen, Germany
(June 3, 2021).
*Message in a Bottle, Boston Globe
(June 3, 2021).
*More Funding for SETI, Fox News
(June 1, 2021).
*Q&A Lecture in hebrew, Israeli Space Agency
(June 1, 2021).
*Review of Extraterrestrial, Chris Lintott, London Review of Books
(June 1, 2021).
*Maybe Dark Matter Is More Than One Thing, Scientific American
(May 30, 2021).
*Q&A, Scienze (in Italian)
(May 28, 2021).
*Importance of Inquiry, Ben Domenech Podcast, Fox News Radio
(May 24, 2021).
*Space Exploration Gives Meaning to Our Lives, The Federalist
(May 24, 2021).
*How to Avoid a Cosmic Catastrophe, Scientific American
(May 23, 2021).
*Proxima Centauri b: Artificial Illimination as a Technosignature, Centauri Dreams
(May 21, 2021).
*Q&A (in Dutch), Para Vizie, Netherlands
(May 20, 2021).
*When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma, Scientific American
(May 17, 2021).
*UFOs, CBS Sunday Morning
(May 16, 2021).
*Book excerpt, CBS Sunday Morning
(May 14, 2021).
*How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left?, Scientific American
(May 12, 2021).
*Q&A Interview, Publico, Protugal (in Portuguese)
(May 11, 2021).
*Podcast on ET Life, Not Seen On TV
(May 10, 2021).
*Funding Research is Better than Eyewitness Reports, Op-Ed, The Hill, Washington DC
(May 9, 2021).
*UChicago News, Big Brains Podcast
(May 6, 2021).
*It Would be Arrogant to Believe That We Are Alone, Yedioth Aharonot, Israel (in hebrew) (May 6, 2021).
*Watching the Universe Expand in Real Time, Scientific American
(May 6, 2021).
*Interstellar Voyagers, BBC Future
(May 6, 2021).
*Q&A, Podcast with Erich von Daniken
(May 6, 2021).
*Q&A, Big Brains, University of Chicago
(May 4, 2021).
*Stars that Race Through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light, Scientific American (May 1, 2021).
*Are We Alone?, Brooke Gladstone, NPR/WNYC Studios (April 24, 2021).
*Scientists Should Never Stop Being Students, Scientific American (April 23, 2021).
*Cover Story, Ami Magazine (April 21, 2021).
*Debate With Brian Greene, Collective[i] (April 15, 2021).
*What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?, Scientific American (April 15, 2021).
*Q&A, Hoofdredacteur ParaVisie Magazine, Netherlands (April 13, 2021).
*Are We Alone?, Munk Debates (April 8, 2021).
*Q&A, All About Space (April 6, 2021).
*When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?, Scientific American (April 4, 2021).
*Q&A on Astrophysics, Visao, Portugal (April 1, 2021).
*Are Extraterrestrials Socially Distancing from Us?, Keen On (March 31, 2021).
*Search for ET, NPR One/RadioWest (March 25, 2021).
*Mass Budget for Nitrogen Icebergs, arXiv (March 25, 2021).
*Photography of Interstellar Objects, Scientific American (March 22, 2021).
*Keen On, Andrew Keen video interview (March 22, 2021).
*Was the Interstellar Object `Oumuamua a Nitrogen Iceberg?, Scientific American (March 19, 2021).
*Review of Extraterrestrial in French, Jean Scheneider (March 18, 2021).
*Hubble Space Telescope, Daily Galaxy (March 14, 2021).
*Alien Artifact, Luckbox (March 11, 2021).
*Aliens Are Real, VICE (March 9, 2021).
*Facing Open Questions, Wiley Online Library (March 9, 2021).
*Aliens, Independent, UK (March 9, 2021).
*Intertstellar Travel, Matthew Williams, Interesting Engineering (March 9, 2021).
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