prof. Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Harvard University
photography https://futureoflife.org/
Extraterrestrials: The Next Copernican Revolution. If we dare to look through new telescopes, we might find them.
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and about 800 papers (with an h-index of 117) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a current member of the Advisory Board for „Einstein: Visualize the Impossible” of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb’s commentaries on innovation and diversity.
Personal website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
prof. Janusz Gluza
Prof. Janusz Gluza works in the field of neutrino physics, non-standard models of elementary interactions, low and high energy physics, and precision perturbation calculations within the Standard Model. Stipendist of the Foundation for Polish Science and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a postdoc at DESY, Germany. He collaborates with scientists from leading scientific centres in the world. Recently engaged in cooperation with the CERN centre in Geneva and FCC collaboration. A member of international scientific networks, principal investigator in NCN grants. Awarded in the competition `Leader of internationalization of the University of Silesia’ for coordination of prestigious scientific international projects carried out at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the University of Silesia. Chairman of the Katowice branch of the Polish Physical Society in the years 2015-2020. Currently a chairman of the Physics of Fundamental Interactions section of the Polish Physical Society. He is an associated member of the CERN personnel (COAS), Switzerland and represents Poland in the ECFA panel (European Committee for Future Accelerators).
Link to the official website of the Professor: http://prac.us.edu.pl/~gluza/