Avi Loeb

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where he chaired the Department of Astronomy from 2011 to 2020 and directs the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is the founding director of the Galileo Project, which conducts systematic scientific searches for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts. He has authored over 800 scientific papers and multiple books on astrophysics, cosmology, and the search for extraterrestrial life.