Simon A. Levin

American ecologist

Simon Asher Levin (born April 22, 1941) 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. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological diversities.²

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Born Apr 22, 1941.¹

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Princeton UniversityBoard member 2001 to now³⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedBaltimore City College³
Date not recordedJohns Hopkins University³
Date not recordedUniversity of Maryland³

Levin received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. He went on to receive his Ph.D. from University of Maryland in mathematics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

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Career

Occupation: ecologist, university teacher, mathematics, mathematician.²⁵

Since 2018Worked at Arizona State University^{4 22}
Since 2016Worked at Princeton University^{4 21}
Since 2014Worked at Princeton University^{4 20}
Since 2012Worked at Princeton University^{4 19}
Since 2009Worked at Princeton University^{4 18}
Since 2001Director, Princeton University^{4 17}
Since 1993Worked at Princeton University^{4 15}
1993 to 1998Founding director, Princeton University^{4 16}
Since 1992Worked at Princeton University^{4 13}
Since 1992Worked at Cornell University^{4 14}
1990 to 1992Worked at Cornell University^{4 12}
1990 to 1991Chairperson, Ecological Society of America^{23 24}

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1987 to 1990Worked at Cornell University^{4 11}
1985 to 1992Worked at Cornell University^{4 10}
1980 to 1987Worked at Cornell University^{4 9}
1977 to 1992Worked at Cornell University^{4 8}
1974 to 1979Worked at Cornell University^{4 7}
1971 to 1977Worked at Cornell University^{4 6}
1965 to 1970Worked at Cornell University^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at Santa Fe Institute⁴

At Cornell University 1965–1992, he was chair of the Section of Ecology and Systematics, and then director of the Ecosystems Research Center, the Center for Environmental Research and the Program on Theoretical and Computational Biology, as well as Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences (1985–1992).

In 1992, Professor Levin published his highly cited paper, titled "The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology".

Since 1992, he has been at Princeton University, where he is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and director of the Center for BioComplexity. He retains an adjunct professorship at Cornell, where he still has many valued colleagues, and is a distinguished visiting professor at Arizona State University.

His research interests are in understanding how macroscopic patterns and processes are maintained at the level of ecosystems and the biosphere, in terms of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that operate primarily at the level of organisms; in infectious diseases; and in the interface between basic and applied ecology.

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. He 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.

He also has received honorary doctorates from Eastern Michigan University, Whittier College (2004), Michigan State University, McMaster University, and the University of Victoria.

He chaired the governing council for IIASA for more than five years and was vice-chair from 2009 to 2012. He serves on the science board of the Santa Fe Institute, which he co-chaired from 2007 to 2010. He is also vice-chair for mathematics of the Committee of Concerned Scientists. 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.

He won the MacArthur Award (1988), Distinguished Service Citation (1998) and the Eminent Ecologist Award (2010) 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. He was honored with the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2005) by the Inamori Foundation, and the Margalef Prize (2010) of the Government of Catalonia, the Luca Pacioli Prize from Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2014), the National Medal of Science (2014, announced 2015, awarded 2016), and most recently, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology (2022).

Levin has mentored more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and has published widely. He is the editor of the influential Princeton Guide to Ecology and the landmark Encyclopedia of Biodiversity.

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Personal life

BornApr 22, 1941, Baltimore²⁶
CitizenshipUnited States²⁷

Awards

2026Fellow of the Royal Society^{28 37}
2022Fellow of the American Mathematical Society^{28 36}
2014Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement^{28 35}
2013National Medal of Science²⁸
2012Fellow of the Ecological Society of America^{28 34}
2010Eminent Ecologist Award^{28 33}
2010Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology^{28 32}
2009Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics^{28 31}
2005Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences^{28 30}
2004Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences²⁸
1988Robert H. MacArthur Award^{28 29}
Date not recordedGuggenheim Fellowship²⁸

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