We are pleased to announce that Mark Levin will join the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor in July 2019. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Levin earned a BS in chemistry at the University of Rochester before commencing graduate work as an NSF Predoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in 2017 under the direction of F. Dean Toste, with a focus on the organometallic chemistry of gold. Levin comes to Chicago from the laboratory of Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University, where he has been studying hypervalent iodine-catalyzed fluorination as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. At Chicago, Levin will develop new catalysts by leveraging inorganic and organometallic reactive species with a multidisciplinary approach that will include synthesis, spectroscopy, mechanistic analysis across both organic and inorganic chemistry.
Mark Levin to join Department of Chemistry as Assistant Professor