Daniel Holz

Daniel Holz is an American physicist specializing in general relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. He is a professor at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Departments of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.

At the University of Chicago, Holz serves as the founding director of the Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab). In addition to his academic work, Holz 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.