Professor
Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College
- Address:
- MCP 435
- Phone:
- 773-834-3306
- Website:
- https://holzlab.uchicago.edu/
Research
Daniel Holz studies black holes and gravitational waves. He is Chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and in this role helps set the time of the Doomsday Clock. He is also founding director of the UChicago Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab), an interdisciplinary effort focused on understanding and mitigating existential risks, including those from AI, nuclear war, and climate change.
News & Highlights
- Free UChicago public lectures celebrate 50 years of discovery with talks on the origins of the universe, dark matter, gravitational waves, and particle physics, September 16, 2026
- The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory celebrated science to save the world through Project Hail Mary, April 17, 2026
- ‘Collective hum’ of black holes could mend our broken understanding of the universe, physicists say, March 24, 2026
- Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse, February 9, 2026
- Nobel laureates and nuclear experts gather at University of Chicago on Trinity anniversary, July 18, 2025
- UChicago to host Nobel laureates, other experts for event on preventing nuclear war, July 8, 2025
- Gravitational Waves and the Expansion of the Universe, April 2, 2019