CURRICULUM VITAE Abraham Loeb Field of Research: Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology Family: Married to Dr. Ofrit Liviatan and father to daughters Klil and Lotem Work Address: Harvard University 60 Garden Street, MS-51 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Phone: (617) 913-5598 E-mail: [email protected]; URL: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~loeb/ Academic Degrees 1986 Ph.D. in Physics 1985 M.Sc. in Physics 1983 B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Thesis Titles Ph.D. "Particle Acceleration to High Energies and Amplification of Coherent Radiation by Electromagnetic Interactions in Plasmas" M.Sc. "Analytical Models for the Evolution of Strong Shock Waves Generated by High Irradiance Lasers in Solids and Fast Spark Discharges" Positions Held 2012– Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University. 2005– Chair, UAP Science Advisory Council to the White House, Pentagon, ODNI, FBI and Intelligence Community. 2021– Director, Galileo Project, Harvard University (https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/). 2005–2026 Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), Harvard University (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/). 2016 Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University. 2011–2020 Longest-Serving Chair (three terms), Harvard Astronomy department (http://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/). 2021–2022 Member of the Center for Astrophysics Executive Board. 2018–2021 Chair of the Board on Physics & Astronomy of the National Academies, USA. 2016-2018 Vice chair of the Board on Physics & Astronomy of the National Academies, USA. 2016–2024 Chair of the Advisory Committee for Breakthrough Starshot, Breakthrough Prize Foundation. 2015– Affiliate of the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University. 2015–2025 Science Theory Director for the Breakthrough Initiatives Projects of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. 2012– Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University. 2011–2020 Longest-Serving Chair (three terms), Harvard Astronomy department (http://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/). 2011– Senior Visiting Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University. 1997– Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University. 1995–1996 Associate Professor, Astronomy Dept., Harvard University. 1993–1995 Assistant Professor, Astronomy Dept., Harvard University. 1988–1993 Long-term member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 1985–1988 Head of a theoretical group on electromagnetic propulsion, Israel. 1980–1988 Participant in “Talpiyot project,” Israel. This national project selects 25 high-school graduates every year from all around Israel; the participants attend an advanced program of academic study and research. Honors & Awards 2024 Winner of the “Space Anomaly Hunters” award for 2024, Miami, Florida (August 4, 2024). 2024 Keynote Lecture at the 550 Year Celebration of the Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, titled: “The Next Copernican Revolution”, Torun, Poland 2024 Fireside Chat at the Munich Security Conference, Germany 2023 CERN’s John Grace Distinguished Lecturer “The New Frontier of Interstellar Objects”, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 2023 Cosmos Award for “Extraterrestrial”, Reggio Calabria, Italy 2021 “Extraterrestrial” selected as Best Science Book of the Year and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, Amazon 2021 Keynote Speaker in Peace BAR (spiritually Beautiful, materially Affluent and humanly Rewarding) Festival, on the topic: “The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Solar System: Will the Identity and Destiny of Earth be Rewritten“, Kyung Hee University System, South Korea 2021 Ignatius Speaker, on “Our Future in Space”, Washington National Cathedral 2021 Keynote Speaker, National Book Festival, Library of Congress 2021 New York Times Bestseller on first week after publication date of the book Extraterrestrial. 2015-2020 Three of Loeb’s students selected for “Forbes 30 Under 30” in five years: Amir Siraj, Henry Lin and Tony Pan; Forbes Magazine. 2020 Dean’s Competitive Funds for Promising Scholarship, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University. 2020 Loeb’s PhD student, Nick Stone, awarded the Bok Prize, Astronomy Department, Harvard University. 2020 Hoopes Prize in undergraduate education for Senior Thesis of advisee, Amir Siraj, Harvard College. 2020 Member of the “President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), White House, USA. 2020 Member of the Advisory Board of “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 2020 Selected to “The 14 Most Inspiring Israelis of the 2010-2020 Decade” by the organization “From the Grapevine”. 2019 Svein Rosseland Lecturer at the University of Oslo, Norway. 2018 Hoopes Prize in undergraduate education for Senior Thesis of advisee, Eden Girma, Harvard College. 2018 Selected among “100 Hebrew University Alumni We Love”, by the American Friends of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2018 Distinguished Lecturer of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta. 2015 Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Permanent Committee. 2015 Elected Member of the American Physical Society (APS). 2015 Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). 2014-2022 Member of the Board on Physics & Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies. 2013 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia. 2012 Hoopes Prize in undergraduate education for Senior Thesis of advisee, Marion Dierickx, Harvard College. 2012 Selected to “The 25 Most Influential People in Space” by TIME Magazine. 2012 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2012 Galileo Galilei Chair (Cattedra Galileiana) Award, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. 2011 Sackler Lecturer in Astronomy, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands. 2011 Las Cumbres Observatory Prize Lecturer in Astrophysics, UC Santa Barbara. 2009/10 Director of the Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics. 2009 Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena. 2008 Invited speaker at the annual symposium of the Miller Institute, UC Berkeley. 2007 Inaugural Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) End of Year Lecturer. 2007/8 Australia-Harvard Distinguished Fellow 2007 Merle Kingsley Distinguished Visitor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). 2006/7 John Bahcall Lecturer at Tel Aviv University University. 2006 Salpeter Lecturer at Cornell University. 2006 SAAS-Fee Lecturer on “The First Light”. Ten lectures summarized in a review of 158 pages, appeared in a book format (astro-ph/0603360). 2004- Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Physics and the Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science. 2003 Einstein Minerva fellow, Physics Faculty, Weizmann Institute. 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. 2001 Prof. Dror Sadeh Memorial Lecturer at Tel Aviv University. 1999 Bergmann Memorial Award of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. 1996 Hoopes Prize in undergraduate education for Senior Thesis of advisee P. Young, Harvard College. 1987 The Kennedy Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1985 “Best M.Sc. Student” award of the Faculty of Science of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude). 1980 Participant in the national elite project “Talpiyot”, Israel. Mentoring Awards 2015 Eric Keto Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics for PhD thesis of advisee Gongjie Li. 2012 Eric Keto Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics for PhD thesis of advisee Laura Blecha. 2006 Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for the PhD thesis to advisee Steven Furlanetto. Professional Service 2018-2022 Ex-officio Member, U.S. Liaison Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, National Academies. 2018 Member of the Consultation Group of the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Academies. 2017-2022 Ex-officio Member, U.S. National Committee for the International Astronomical Union. 2016-2020 Member, President’s Task Force on Diversity and Belonging, Harvard University. 2014-2022 Member, Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. 2014-2017 Member, Dean’s Faculty Resources Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University. 2014 Guest member, Editorial board, Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2013–2014 Physical Sciences Chair, Review Committee of Science Graduate Programs, Harvard University. 2013–2020 Member, Allston Academic Planning Committee, Harvard University. 2013–2015 Member, Star Family Challenge Committee, Harvard University. 2011-2020 Head of Astrophysics, Editorial Board, Scientific Reports, Nature Magazine. 2011-2014 Member, International Advisory Board, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 2009–2020 Editor, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). 2008–2010 Executive board for the Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope 2008–2010 Science Working Group for the JANUS GRB Mission 2008–2019 Science Working Group for the Lunar Radio Observatory. 2008/9 Chair, selection committee of the Dan David Prize in cosmology. 2005–2008 Science Working Group for the Cosmic Inflation Probe. 2005–2015 Science Working Group for the Murchison Wide-Field Array. 2000–2020 Chair of the biennial Harvard-Smithsonian Conference Series in Theoretical Astrophysics, sponsored by Raymond and Beverly Sackler. The first conference on “The First Generation of Cosmic Structures” was held in May 2000 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/apconf/). The second conference on “Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe” was held in May 2002 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/grbconf/). The third conference on “Astrophysics of Planetary Systems” was held in May 2004 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/apsconf/). The fourth conference on “Nuclear Black Holes in Galaxies” was held in May 2006 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/bh2006/). The fifth conference on “21cm Cosmology” was held in May 2008 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/cos2008/). The sixth conference on “Dynamics from the Galactic Center to the Milky-Way Halo” was held in May 2010 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2010/dyn/). The seventh conference on “Testing General Relativity with Astrophysical Systems” was held in May 2012 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2012/sackler). The eighth conference on “Debates of the Nature of Dark Matter” was held in May 2014 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2014/sackler). The ninth conference on ”The Transient Sky” was held in May 2016 (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2016/sackler). The tenth conference on ”Gravitational Wave Astrophysics” was held in May 2018 (https://itc.cfa.harvard.edu/sackler-conference-2018). 1999–2000 Panel on Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Astronomy from Space of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee. 1998–2000 Science Working Group for the Generation-X Space Telescope. 1997–2000 Science Working Group for the Next Generation Space Telescope. Undergraduate Students at Harvard College Peter Young, Genevieve Shattow, Marion Dierickx, Ana-Maria Constantin, Henry Lin, Eden Girma, Amir Siraj, Mahlet Shiferaw, Carson Ezell, Kaylie hausknecht. Graduate Students (in chronological order) Daniel Eisenstein (Hubble fellow, Professor at Univ. of Arizona, now tenured Professor at Harvard Univ.), Zoltán Haiman (Hubble fellow, tenured Pro- fessor at Columbia Univ.), Rosalba Perna (Harvard Junior fellow, Princeton Spitzer fellow, tenured Professor at SUNY Stony Brook), Eric Woods (teaching), Ravi Pilla (graduated), Alexandre Refregier (Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), David Heyrovsky (graduated), Xiaohu Wang (graduated), Pinaki Chatterjee (graduated), Steven Furlanetto (prize postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, tenured Professor at UCLA), Loren Hoffman (Lindheimer postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern, postdoc at Hebrew University), Daniel Babich (prize postdoctoral fellowship, Caltech), Ryan O’Leary (Einstein fellow, UC Berkeley), Genevieve Shattow (Swinburne), Joseph Munoz (researcher, Lincoln Labs), Bence Kocsis (Einstein fellow, ITC, postdoc IAS, Professor in Hungary), Laura Blecha (Einstein fellow, Maryland; Assistant Professor, U. Florida), Idan Ginsburg (Dartmouth, research fellow at CfA), Eli Visbal (Prize postdoc at Columbia U., Research Fellow at Flatiron Institute, Professor at Univ. of Toledo), Nicholas Stone (Postdoc at Columbia U., Assistant Professor at Hebrew University), Douglas Rubin (graduated, finances), Tony Pan (graduated, CEO of “Modern Electron”), Jonathan Bittner (Physics, CEO of startup), Gongjie Li (Harvard Junior fellow, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech), Natalie Mashian (Physics, research fellow in biophysics), Marion Dierickx (Astronomy, postdoc at Harvard), Pierre Christian (Astronomy, prize postdoc in Arizone), Anna Ijjas (Visiting PhD student), Anna Patej (Physics, Prize postdoc at U. Arizona), Xiawei Wang (Astronomy), Ben Margalit (Columbia U., postdoc at UC Berkeley), Aaron Smith (UT Austin), Delilah Gates (Physics), Sophia Sanchez-Maes (Astronomy), Betty Hu (Physics), Shelley Cheng (Astronomy), Karina Mathew (English). Visiting Graduate Students (in chronological order) Dr. Girish Kulkarni (India), Dr. Urbano Franca (Spain), Dr. Kimi Hayasaki (Japan), Dr. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (Spain), Dr. Giacomo Fragione (Italy), Dr. Shmuel Bialy (Israel), Dr. Akshaya Rane (WVU, US), Dr. Erez Michaeli (Israel), Elisa Tabor (Stanford). Postdoctoral fellows (in chronological order) Anne Thoul (Prof. at Univ. of Liege, Belgium), Volker Bromm (Prof. at Univ. of Texas), Stuart Wyithe (Prof. at Univ. of Melbourne), Avery Broderick (Prof. at Univ. Waterloo, Canada), Misha Medvedev (Prof. at U. Kansas), Mark Dijkstra (MPA postdoc), Scott Gaudi (Prof. at Ohio-State U.), Jonathan Pritchard (Prof. at Imperial College, UK), Uri Keshet (Prof. at Ben Gurion Univ., Israel), Yuval Birnboim (Prof. at Hebrew Univ.), Bence Kocsis (Professor at Oxford Univ.), Charlie Conroy (Prof. at Harvard), Yue Shen (Prof. at U. Illinois), Nico Yunes (Prof. at Univ. of Montana), Asaf Pe’er (Prof. at Ben Gurion U.), Smadar Naoz (Prof. at UCLA), Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Professor at Northwestern), Sayan Chakraborti (Harvard Society of Fellows), Konstantin Batygin (Prof. at Caltech), Yan-Fei Jiang (Einstein fellow), Lorenzo Sironi (Prof. at Columbia U.), James Guillochon (Einstein fellow), Cora Dvorkin (Prof. at Harvard), Igor Pikovski (Branco Weiss postdoctoral fellow), Blakesley Burkhart (Prof. at Rutgers), Nia Imara (Future Faculty Leader fellow, Harvard), Zac Manchester (Prof. at Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Girish Kulkarni (Prof. in India), Nicola Amorisco (ITC fellow), Anastasia Fialkov (Prof. at Cambridge U.), John Forbes (ITC fellow), Ana Bonaca (Prof. at Carnegie Observatories), Laura Kreidberg (Prof. at Heidelberg Univ.), Nia Imara (Prof. at UCSC), Dan D’Orazio (Prof. at Denmark), Sownak Bose (Prof. at Durham, UK), Manasvi Lingam (Prof. at Florida Institute of Technology), Razi Emami (ITC fellow), Shmuel Bialy (Prof. at Univ. of Haifa), Paul Chesler (BHI fellow), Hsin-Yu Chen (BHI fellow), Feraz Azhar (BHI fellow), Vikram Ravi (CfA fellow), Julian Munoz (CfA fellow), Mohammad Safarzadeh (ITC fellow), Karan Jani (Vanderbilt), Richard Annantua (ITC fellow), Morgan MacLeod (ITC fellow), Richard Cloete (Galileo-Luakien fellow), Laura Domine (Galileo-Keto fellow), Juliana Cherston (Brinson Fellow), Regina Sarmiento (Galileo fellow), Vishnu Anand (Galileo fellow), Jun Yang (Galileo fellow), Devesh Nandel (ITC fellow). Abraham Loeb - LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Books 9. Loeb, A. “Interstellar”, HarperCollins (August 2023). 8. Lingam, M., & Loeb, A. “Life In The Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures”, Harvard University Press (June 2021). 7. Loeb, A. “Extraterrestrial”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2021). 6. Loeb, A. (Eds. D. Sloan, R.A. Batista, M. Ticks & R. Davies), “Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe”, Cambridge University Press (2020) 5. Loeb, A. “From the First Star to Milkomeda”, Kindle, Amazon (2015). 4. Loeb, A. “From the First Star to the End of Time” (in hebrew), Carmel Publishing House, Israel (2015). 3. Loeb, A., & Furlanetto, S., “The First Galaxies in the Universe”, Princeton Series in Astrophysics, Princeton University Press (2013). 2. Loeb, A. “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?”, Frontiers in Physics Series, Princeton University Press (2010). 1. Loeb, A., Ferrara, A., & Ellis, R. S. “First Light in the Universe”, SAAS-Fee winter school, Springer, New York (2008). Latest Papers and Essays 2182. Guillochon, J. & Loeb, A. "A Self-Sustaining Black Hole Engine Powered by the Tidal Disruptions of Stars", ApJ (2026). [arXiv:2608.28947] 2181. Loeb, A. “Cosmic Slingshots to the Speed of Light”, Medium (2026). [https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/U636.pdf] The publication record of Abraham Loeb spans over 2,180 articles, papers, essays, and scientific commentaries published in peer-reviewed astrophysics and physics journals (including The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Nature, Science, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Research Notes of the AAS, Astrobiology, and Planetary Science Journal), general science outlets (Scientific American, Nature Physics, Physics Today), op-eds/commentary (Medium, The Hill, The Debrief, Wall Street Journal, NYT), and conference proceedings from 1985 through 2026. 1. Loeb, A., & Eliezer, S., “An Analytical Model for Creation and Decay of Strong Shock Waves Caused by a Trapezoidal Laser Pulse,” Phys. Fluids, 28, 1196, 1985. Patent “A Method and Apparatus for Accelerating Masses to High Velocities”, by Z. Kaplan, A. Loeb & G. Engler, 1988. “Low Specific Mass Space Power System”, by T.F. Sheerin, & A. Loeb, 2020.