Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical astrophysicist whose research spans black holes, the first stars and galaxies, cosmology, and the search for extraterrestrial life. He is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and directs the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Loeb founded Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative and leads the Galileo Project, which investigates possible evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts.