Professor Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. 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.  Avi Loeb is also the creator of the Harvard backed, UAP / UFO  Working Group named The Galileo Project, the aim of which is to search for and study extraterrestrial techno-signatures, in the hopes of providing concrete, scientific data for the existence of intelligent life in The Universe.