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Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020), Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (since 2016) and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (since 2007) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Awards:
Loeb has received many honors, including:[5]
2015 - Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Permanent Committee
2015 - Elected Member of the American Physical Society (APS)
2014 - Member of the Board on Physics & Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies
2013 - Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award from the American Astronomical Society, for the book “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?” (2010)
2013 - Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia
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 - Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
2007 - Inaugural Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) End of Year Lecturer
2007 - Merle Kingsley Distinguished Visitor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
2006/7 - John Bahcall Lecturer at Tel Aviv University University
2006 - Salpeter Lectureship at Cornell University
2004 - Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Physics and the Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
2002 - Guggenheim Fellowship [67]
1987 - The Kennedy Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
