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Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb is Head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is the author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth and a co-author of the textbook Life in the Cosmos.

Avi Loeb is Head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is the author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth and a co-author of the textbook Life in the Cosmos.

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