Date of Birth:

Feb 26, 1962 (64 years)

Place of Birth:

Beit Hanan, Israel

Biography:

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, where since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics.