People

Biography

Laurent Loinard is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and a member of the Black Hole Initiative (BHI). He is also a professor of astrophysics at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is an expert in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), with a particular focus on VLBI astrometry. He has received a number of awards and accolades, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), the von Humboldt  Foundation Bessel Prize (2011) and the TWAS Prize 2022. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration which obtained the first image of the supermassive blackhole at the center of M87, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the 2020 Einstein Medal and the 2021 Group Award of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society.