A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night.

Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning.

Police are actively investigating the death as a homicide, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, writing in a statement, “No further information is being released at this time.”

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According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s website, Loureiro was director of the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center as well as a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.