Abraham Loeb

Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has written 9 books, including Extraterrestrial and Interstellar, along with over a thousand scientific papers. Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation and leads the Galileo Project. He has served as Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department and founded the Black Hole Initiative. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.