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| Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University.
Loeb published 4 books and over 700 papers (with an h-index of 103) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He serves as Chair of Harvard's
Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of
Harvard's Black
Hole Initiative and Director of
the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC)
within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
. He
also chairs the Advisory Committee for
the Breakthrough
Starshot Initiative, serves as the Science Theory Director for
all Initiatives of
the Breakthrough Prize
Foundation, as well as Chair of
the Board
on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies.
He is an
elected fellow of
the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences,
the American
Physical Society, and
the International Academy of
Astronautics. In 2012, TIME magazine
selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space. Click here for Loeb's commentaries on innovation and diversity.
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IN THE NEWS:
*Interstellar Comet Borisov, Space.com (September 20, 2019).
*Questions for Smart People, Podcast (September 16, 2019).
*Interstellar Comet, accepted for publication in RNAAS (September 16, 2019).
*Einstein and Black Holes, Public Lecture (September 11, 2019).
*Fermi's Paradox, Grapevine (September 10, 2019).
*The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life, Scientific American (September 8, 2019).
*Nothing Persists, Scientific American (September 6, 2019).
*Interstellar Meteors, Space.Com (August 30, 2019).
*Monitoring the Moon for Interstellar Impacts, Universe Today (August 28, 2019).
*TMT Update, Associated Press (August 25, 2019).
*Airless Alien Planet, Scientific American (August 19, 2019).
*Stardust in Antarctic Snow, Inside Science (August 16, 2019).
*Lecture on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Jefferson Educational Society (November 1, 2019).
*Nothing Persists Except Change Itself, Scientific American (August 16, 2019).
*The Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Baby Universe, Nature Magazine (August 14, 2019).
*Science as a Way of Life, Scientific American (August 14, 2019).
*Einstein and Black Holes, Lecture at Harvard (September 11, 2019).
*Worldwide ranking of the Harvard Astronomy department, CWUR (August 7, 2019).
*Extraterrestrial Life, Boston Museum of Science (October 16, 2019).
*Search for Life, New Scientist Live, London (October 12, 2019).
*Space Exploration, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline (September 9, 2019).
*Answers to Five Questions, American Enterprise Institute (July 31, 2019).
*Alien Intelligence, Robert Kuhn, Closer to Truth (July 29, 2019).
*Life on Planets in Extreme Environments, James Pethokoukis, The National Interest (July 27, 2019).
*Why America Shouldn't Stop and the Moon or Mars, James Pethokoukis, The National Interest (July 22, 2019).
*Scientific Significance of the Moon, Public lecture in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Yellow Barn, Vermont (July 20, 2019).
*Next Space Frontier, Profile interview in Times of Israel (July 19, 2019).
*Reaching the Stars, Beobachter magazine (in German) (July 19, 2019).
*Direct Collapse Black Holes, Wired Magazine (July 18, 2019).
*Search for Life, Podcast with Jim Pethokoukis (July 18, 2019).
*Federal Funding of Future Moonshots, Scientific American (July 16, 2019).
*Black Holes and Search for Life, "Matty in the Morning", Kiss 108FM Radio (July 16, 2019).
*"Spreading Seeds of Life", Harvard Gazette (July 8, 2019).
*"It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar", Scientific American (July 3, 2019).
*"Fast Radio Bursts and SETI", Wired (July 3, 2019).
*"Big Ideas in Federal Funding", Universe Today (July 2, 2019).
*"Searching for Life", Undark (July 1, 2019).
*"One Thing to Change in the World?", Harvard Gazette (June 28, 2019).
*"Q&A Video", Mission2Mars Academy (June 24, 2019).
*"Meeting with Nieman Fellows", Harvard University (June 20, 2019).
*"Extraterrestrial Artifacts", Metro, UK (June 12, 2019).
*"In Search of Green Dwarfs", Scientific American (June 3, 2019).
*Decadal Plans (in hebrew), Ha'aretz
(May 30, 2019).
*The World (TV Interview, starting at time tag 14:00), with Jesse Ventura
(May 29, 2019).
*GZero World (TV Interview): Part I, with Ian Bremmer, PBS
(May 25, 2019).
*GZero World (TV Interview): Part II, with Ian Bremmer, PBS
(May 25, 2019).
*Black Holes, News Radio with David Gornoski, Orlando
(May 22, 2019).
*"Further Realms: Are We Alone?", Harvard Crimson (May 20, 2019).
*"Black Holes and Insterstellar Visitors", Podcast, The Bob Murphy Show (May 17, 2019).
*Extraterrestrial Life, Q&A with Tonya Hall, ZDNet (May 15, 2019).
*"Should Scientists Keep Their Debates Private?", Scientific American (May 14, 2019).
*`Oumuamua's Cousin?, Scientific American
(May 6, 2019).
*`Oumuamua gifts, Scientific American
(May 6, 2019).
*"Interstellar Meteor", Harvard Crimson
(April 29, 2019).
*"Announcement of Keynote Lecture at New Scientist Live, London", Scientific American
(April 25, 2019).
*"Did a Meteor from Another Star Srike the Earth in 2014?", Scientific American
(April 23, 2019).
*"When Laboratory Experiments Carry Theological Implications", Scientific American
(April 22, 2019).
*Before the Big Bang, Harvard Gazette
(April 18, 2019).
*Meteor from Another System, CNN
(April 17, 2019).
*Interstellar Meteor, National Geographic
(April 16, 2019).
*First Interstellar Meteor, Newsweek
(April 16, 2019).
*Busy Week, Grapevine
(April 16, 2019).
*Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin, arXiv
(April 15, 2019).
*Implications of the M87 Image, Inverse
(April 12, 2019).
*Looking Into Nothing, der Spiegel Cover Story
(April 12, 2019).
*First Theoretical Prediction of the Black Hole Image in M87, The Astrophysical Journal
(April 11, 2019).
*Harvard Scientists Help Capture the First Ever Black Hole Image, Harvard Crimson
(April 10, 2019).
*What is a Black Hole Event Horizon?, Space.com
(April 9, 2019).
*Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Discover
(April 8, 2019).
*How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive, Scientific American
(April 8, 2019).
*Nanocrafts to Alpha-Centauri, SciTech Europa
(April 4, 2019).
*Science or Science Fiction, Boston Globe
(April 3, 2019).
*Q&A, Salom magazine, Turkey
(April 3, 2019).
*"Alien Civilizations", Lasse Biornstad, Oslo (in Norwegien)
(March 31, 2019).
*"Asteroid Explosion Over Russia", The CATS Roundtable
(March 31, 2019).
*"What Happened Before the Big Bang?", Press Release
(March 25, 2019).
*"The Humanities and the Future", Scientific American
(March 22, 2019).
*"Extraterrestrial Life", Svein Rosseland Prize Lecture, University of Oslo
(March 21, 2019).
*More on `Oumuamua, Lee Billings, Scientific American
(March 21, 2019).
*Oumuamua, Salom, Turkey
(March 21, 2019).
*Protecting Scientific Innovation from Social Pressure, accepted for publication
(March 18, 2019).
*Reaching for the Stars, SciTech Europa Quarterly
(March 15, 2019).
*Profile in French, Le Ze'Phir Magazine
(March 15, 2019).
*Profile, Hebrew University Newsletter
(March 15, 2019).
*Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole, Scientific American
(March 11, 2019).
*Future of the Universe, Spark Dialogue
(March 5, 2019).
*Future of Liberal Arts, accepted for publication
(March 4, 2019).
*"Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Block?", Scientific American (March 4, 2019).
*Anomalies on the Sky, CBS Chronicle
(March 4, 2019).
*Profile, La Nacion, Argentina
(March 3, 2019).
*Religious Implications of Oumuamua, First Source (in Hebrew; March 3, 2019)
*Radio interview, Mary-Jane Pop, Sacramento
(February 25, 2019).
*"Buzz Aldrin's footprint on the Moon", The Grapevine (February 22, 2019).
*"Save the World: Avi Loeb", Republik (in German) (February 22, 2019).
*"Exciting Frontiers in Space Research", Stephen Ibaraki, Association for Computer Machinery (February 19, 2019).
*"Life Around Black Holes", accepted for publication (February 18, 2019).
*"Be Kind to Extraterrestrials", Scientific American (February 15, 2019).
*"What is a Black Hole?", Science Daily (February 14, 2019).
*"Evening News on PBS", Jim Braude, WGBH (February 13, 2019).
*"CBS Report", Marissa Bodnar, CBS (February 15, 2019).
*"The Ultimate Questions", Closer to Truth (February 11, 2019).
*"Conversation", Technikart (in French) (February 11, 2019).
*"Alien Probe?", Wall Street Journal (February 8, 2019).
*"Are we alone in the universe?", Michael Smerconish, CNN (February 9, 2019).
*"Testing Cosmic Inflation", Harvard Crimson (February 8, 2019).
*"Poll Results", Michael Smerconish, Twitter (February 8, 2019).
*"Ideas", Boston Globe (February 7, 2019).
*"We Might Not Be Alone", NBC Boston (February 6, 2019).
*"Oumuamua", The View, ABC (February 6, 2019).
*"Cloud of Dust?", video by Fox News (February 5, 2019).
*"Getting Personal", by Professor Steven Tingay in Newsweek (February 5, 2019).
*"Imaging Black Holes", Salon (February 4, 2019).
*"Aliens Among Us", Washington Post (February 4, 2019).
*"Ask Me Anything", Reddit (February 1, 2019).
*"Cover Story", XLSemanal (February 1, 2019).
*"Fermi's Paradox", Event Horizon (January 31, 2019).
*"Science and Fiction", NPR Interview (January 30, 2019).
*"Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God", Scientific American (January 26, 2019).
*"The `Oumuamua Legacy", Scientific American (January 25, 2019).
*"Mainstreaming SETI", Filling Space (January 25, 2019).
*Greetings from Outer Space (in French)", Ulyces (January 25, 2019).
*Between the Rock and Deep Space", NPR (January 25, 2019).
*"The Strangeness of Black Holes", Nautilus (January 23, 2019).
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