Rate My Professor Reuben Leveson-Gower

Dr. Reuben Leveson-Gower serves as Assistant Professor in the Biocatalysis Section of the Department of Biotechnology within Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Applied Sciences, a role he assumed in June 2024. Originally born in Canberra, Australia to British parents and raised primarily in the United Kingdom, he pursued his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Durham University, graduating first in his year in 2017 with an MChem degree. For this achievement, he received the national Salters’ Institute Graduate Prize. During his studies, Leveson-Gower completed an industrial internship in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis at SASOL UK in St. Andrews, Scotland. He then earned his PhD from the University of Groningen in 2023, awarded with the highest distinction cum laude, under the supervision of Prof. Gerard Roelfes. His doctoral research centered on the design and evolution of artificial enzymes incorporating non-canonical amino acids. As part of this work, he conducted a two-month research stay at the Autonomous University of Barcelona with Prof. Jean-Didier Maréchal to study enzyme mechanisms computationally, supported by a FEBS Short-Term Fellowship.