Advisory Boards

The Scientific Advisory Board provides top-level scientific advice to the Research Team.

Charles Alcock

• Director, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
• Donald Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard University

Sagi Ben Ami

• Assistant Professor (senior researcher), Weizmann Institute of Science
• Head of the WIS Instrumentation Group
• PI on G-CLEF Extreme R for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Paul C. W. Davies

• Regents' Professor and Professor of Physics, Arizona State University (ASU)
• Director, Beyond Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, ASU

Ferki Ferati

• President, The Jefferson Educational Society of Erie
• Ed.D. in Social and Comparative Analysis, University of Pittsburgh
• Masters in Public Administration, Gannon University

Mercedes Lopez-Morales

• Senior Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
• Deputy Associate Director for Science, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Seth Shostak

• Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
• Host of the SETI Institute weekly science radio show, "Big Picture Science"
• Author of three trade books on SETI and more than 600 popular articles on science

Rizwan Virk

• Venture capitalist
• Founder of Play Labs @ MIT
• Author of “The Simulation Hypothesis”

Stephen Wolfram

• Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
• Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha
• Originator of Wolfram Physics Project

Dimitar Sasselov

• Phillips Professor of Astronomy
• Director, Origins of Life Initiative
• Senior Advisor in the Sciences for Advanced Study