Rate My Professor Janna Levin

Professor Levin's research centers on theories of the early universe, chaos, and black holes, with interests in the topology of the universe, cosmology of extra dimensions, and string cosmology. Her key publications include the paper “A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits” with G. Perez-Giz in Physical Review D 77, 103005 (2008), “Dark Energy and Stabilization of Extra Dimensions” with B. Greene in Journal of High Energy Physics 11 (2007), “Topology and the Cosmic Microwave Background” in Physics Reports 365 (2002), and “Gravity Waves from Relativistic Binaries” with R. O’Reilly and E. J. Copeland in Physical Review D 62 (2000). She has authored influential books such as How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space (2003) and Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, alongside the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (2006), which earned the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers, the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work, and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A Guggenheim Fellow since 2012, Levin has significantly impacted theoretical astrophysics and public understanding of gravitational waves and cosmic structures through her scholarly and outreach contributions.