Janna Levin

Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her work focuses on theories of the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. Her second book — a novel, "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines" — will be published by Knopf this August. She is also the author of the popular science book, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space". She holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy from Barnard College of Columbia University with a concentration in Philosophy, and a PhD from MIT in Physics. She has worked at the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the UK where she worked at Cambridge University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Just before returning to New York, she was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (NESTA). She has written for many artists and appeared on several radio and television programs.