People

Avi Loeb, Head of "Galileo Project"

aloeb@cfa.harvard.edu

Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard Astronomy Department

Director, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Founding Director, Black Hole Initiative (BHI), Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Steven Africk

PhD, physics, Brown University

Ankit Biswas

Student Researcher, NCMNS Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab

CEO and Co-founder, Youth Research Initiative

Phillip Brigham

Cognitive Software, Technical Fellow Northrop Grumman | Mission Systems

Dr. Phillip Bridgham is a Technical Fellow and researcher for Northrop Grumman and applies AI, Machine Learning, and Information Fusion techniques to create unique solutions to the most challenging of mission critical hard problems. Dr. Bridgham brings 25...

Richard Cloete

richard.cloete@cfa.harvard.edu

PhD, computer science

Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University

Richard is a computer scientist and a Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University. He is a member of the Galileo Project working under the supervision of Professor Avi, having recently held a...

Alex Delacroix

alex.delacroix@cfa.harvard.edu

Mechanical Engineer, Caltech Optical Observatory

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Commercial airplane pilot, Airframe mechanic

Mechanical Design and installation of the Gattini IR and UV telescopes and the ZTF Cryostat.

Steven Dick

PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University

Former NASA Chief Historian

Former Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology

Laura Domine

laura.domine@cfa.harvard.edu

Keto-Galileo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

PhD in Physics, Stanford University

Natasha Donahue

Bachelor of Science, Athabasca University, Canada

Experience in science outreach, communication, and education at the University of Alberta, Canada

Michael Hercz

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc.

Managing Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Vice President, Law & Chief Compliance Officer, Victory Pharma

Ezra Kelderman

Project Manager & Hardware Engineer

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University

Music Production

Eric Keto

Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Project Scientist for the Submillimeter Array

Associate Senior Member at Harvard's Institute for Theory and Computation