Kathryn Levin

Kathryn J. Levin
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Irvine University of Rochester University of Chicago

Kathryn Levin is an American physicist who is Professor of Quantum Science at the University of Chicago. Levin works on high temperatures cuprates and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer – Bose–Einstein condensate crossover.

Early life and education

Levin is the daughter of a physicist. She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated top of the class of the College of Letters and Science. She completed her doctoral research at Harvard University, where she studied the transport and electronic properties of alloys. She completed two postdoctoral research positions, one at the University of Rochester and one at the University of California, Irvine.

Research and career

Levin works in condensed matter theory, superconductivity and superfluidity. Her early work considered superfluid helium. In 1995, quantum coherent Bose–Einstein condensatess were demonstrated in trapped atoms, and Levin was amongst the first to recognize it could be used to create coherent pairs of fermionic atoms.

Levin works on cuprates and superconductors, and atomic gas superfluids.

Levin currently works at the James franck institute, which specialize's in the intersections of physics, chemistry and material science's.

Levin has trained about 25 PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral scholars during her continuing career.

Recognition

Levin was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1991, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for her contributions to our understanding of strongly interacting Fermion systems".

Personal life

Levin is married with two children.