Benjamin Lev received his Bachelor's degree Magna Cum Laude from Princeton in 1999 and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2005, both in physics. Benjamin joined the Stanford faculty in 2011, where he is Professor of physics and Applied Physics and runs a quantum many-body physics research lab. He has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama and a Packard Foundation Fellowship, as well as NSF CAREER, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and Office of Navy Research Young Investigator Program awards. Benjamin is a fellow of the American Physical Society, is a member of the Defense Science Study Group run by IDA and DARPA, and serves on the editorial board of Physical Review X.
