Kathryn Levin
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Kathryn J. Levin | |
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| 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.[1] Levin works on high temperatures cuprates and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer – Bose–Einstein condensate crossover.[1]
Levin is the daughter of a physicist.[2] 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.[2] She completed her doctoral research at Harvard University, where she studied the transport and electronic properties of alloys.[3][4] She completed two postdoctoral research positions, one at the University of Rochester and one at the University of California, Irvine.[1]
Research and career
Levin works in condensed matter theory, superconductivity and superfluidity.[5] Her early work considered superfluid helium.[3] 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.[6]
Levin works on cuprates and superconductors, and atomic gas superfluids.[3][7]
Levin currently works at the James franck institute, which specialize's in the intersections of physics, chemistry and material science's.[8]
Levin has trained about 25 PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral scholars during her continuing career.[1]
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".[9]