Simon Asher Levin was born on April 22,1941 and is an American ecologist and the James S McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University.
14 Facts About Simon Levin
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Simon Levin specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological diversities.
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In 1992, Professor Levin published his highly cited paper, titled "The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology".
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Simon Levin retains an adjunct professorship at Cornell, where he still has many valued colleagues, and is a distinguished visiting professor at Arizona State University.
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Simon Levin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mathematical Society, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a Foreign Member of the Istituto Veneto.
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Simon Levin is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Association, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Luohan Academy.
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Simon Levin has received honorary doctorates from Eastern Michigan University, Whittier College, Michigan State University, McMaster University, and the University of Victoria.
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Simon Levin chaired the governing council for IIASA for more than five years and was vice-chair from 2009 to 2012.
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Simon Levin serves on the science board of the Santa Fe Institute, which he co-chaired from 2007 to 2010.
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Simon Levin is vice-chair for mathematics of the Committee of Concerned Scientists.
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Simon Levin is a former president of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Mathematical Biology, and a past chair of the board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics.
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Simon Levin won the MacArthur Award, Distinguished Service Citation and the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America, the Okubo Award of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Japanese Society for Theoretical Biology, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute for Biological Sciences.
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Simon Levin has mentored more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and has published widely.
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Simon Levin is the editor of the influential Princeton Guide to Ecology and the landmark Encyclopedia of Biodiversity.