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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 121 and i10-index of 553) 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:
*Panel discussion on consciousness, Wisconsin (October 6, 2022).
*Lecture on "Cosmic Conciousness", Wisconsin (October 6, 2022).
*Down to Earth Limits on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Ukraine (October 4, 2022).
*Rogue Planets (October 3, 2022).
*Permanent Climate Change on Habitable Planets (October 2, 2022).
*Do Astronomers Exist on Habitable Exo-Planets? (September 30, 2022).
*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).
*Rebooting Earth from a Lunar Backup System, Medium (September 7, 2022).
*Let Many Flowers Bloom, Medium (September 5, 2022).
*Humans Are Not Scientific Detectors, Medium (September 4, 2022).
*A Meeting with `Oumuamua at the Venice Film Festival, Medium (September 3, 2022).
*Advice to Young People, Medium (August 31, 2022).
*You and It, Medium (August 29, 2022).
*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).
*What is Real?, Medium (August 22, 2022).
*The Scissors of Academic Review, Medium (August 21, 2022).
*Messages Carried by Ripples of Space and Time, Medium (August 20, 2022).
*Gifts of Active Galactic Nuclei, Medium (August 18, 2022).
*PNG Expedition, "All Things Considered", National Public Radio (NPR)(August 16, 2022).
*Wish Upon a Star, Medium (August 16, 2022).
*What Came First: the Astro-Chicken or the Egg?, Medium (August 14, 2022).
*Rising Above the Noise, Medium (August 11, 2022).
*The Enigmatic Universe, Medium (August 10, 2022).
*What is Our Rating in the Cosmic Dating Scene?, Medium (August 7, 2022).
*Thank you for Your Service to Blue Skies Science, Medium (August 5, 2022).
*Fixing Our Worldview With Scientific Knowledge, Medium (August 4, 2022).
*Interstellar Archaeology, Medium (August 4, 2022).
*Our Cosmic Roots Suggest Humility, Medium (July 31, 2022).
*What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Stronger, Medium (July 28, 2022).
*A Test of Cosmic Inflation and Quantum Gravity, Medium (July 26, 2022).
*What Lies Beyond the Horizon?, Medium (July 24, 2022).
*What's in a Name?, Medium (July 22, 2022).
*Nature Could Be Simple, Medium (July 20, 2022).
*First Year of the Galileo Project, Medium (July 20, 2022).
*The Bright Side of the Moon, Medium (July 17, 2022).
*Life As We Do Not Know It, Medium (July 15, 2022).
*Time is of the Essence, Medium (July 13, 2022).
*First Cosmic Bits Caught in Webb's Web, Medium (July 12, 2022).
*The New Eyes and Brain of the Galileo Project, Medium (July 7, 2022).
*The Sunrise Ritual, Medium (July 5, 2022).
*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).
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