A prominent Yale University professor was suspended after newly released documents show he recommended a “good-looking blonde” student to work for infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — who he described as a man “obsessed with girls” in a bizarre, unapologetic statement. 

David Gelernter, 70 — who made headlines in 1993 when he survived an explosive sent by “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski — has come under fire over an email he sent to Epstein in October 2011. 

The message, which was sent years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, saw Gelernter tout a Yale senior for a job with the disgraced financier, describing her as “v small good-looking blonde.”     

Gelernter, who shared emails with Epstein on a variety of topics, defended the messages in an email to Jeffrey Brock, dean of Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, according to the Yale Daily News. 

The computer science professor claimed there was nothing wrong with keeping “the potential boss’s habits in mind” when making the recommendation.

He suggested that describing the undergraduate’s physical appearance was appropriate because Epstein — “like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male” —  was “obsessed with girls.” 

“So long as I said nothing that dishonored her in any conceivable way, I’d have told him more or less what he wanted,” Gelernter wrote to Brock, the paper reported. “She was smart, charming & gorgeous. Ought I to have suppressed that info? Never!

“I’m very glad I wrote the note,” he added. 

The professor, who claimed he did not know Epstein was a convicted sex offender when he recommended the student for a summer job with the pedophile’s private bank, also mocked Yale’s investigation into his conduct. 

“The university’s Smoking Gun is a personal, private email, dug out of the dump of Epstein files,” Gelernter wrote. “(If someone handed you a stack of other people’s private correspondence, would you dive in and read them? Of course not. Gentlemen and ladies don’t read each other’s mail. (Courtesy 101.)”

Yale immediately condemned the professor’s comments, and on Tuesday, students learned that he would not be teaching his regular computer science classes. 

“The university does not condone the action taken by the professor or his described manner of providing recommendations for his students,” Yale said in a statement. “The professor’s conduct is under review. Until the review is completed, the professor will not teach his class.”

Gelernter has yet to make a public statement about his emails with Epstein. 

Kris Aziabor, a 21-year-old senior from New Hampshire, said he and his fellow students were left stunned by their professor’s link to Epstein and the defense he provided to the school. 

“I think there was definitely an initial kind of, like, wave of shock, just because you know I think it just sounds ridiculous that one of your professors, like someone who is teaching you, is literally in these Epstein files,” Aziabor told the Associated Press. 

“But I think what really was the most surprising to me was how he was trying to defend his, like, past words and past actions,” he added. 

Gelernter has been with Yale since 1982 and is known for his work with computers, including helping develop the Linda computer programing system.  

His 1991 book “Mirror Worlds” foreshadowed the World Wide Web and inspired the Java programming language, according to his biography with Yale.

He suffered major wounds to his abdomen, chest, face, and hands on June 24, 1993, when he opened a package mailed out by Kaczynski during his 17-year bombing campaign. 

Gelernter is only the latest person to come under scrutiny for his ties to Epstein, which were made public after the US Justice Department released a trove of documents related to the sex offender in late January. 

With Post wires