Lisa Levin is Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and was Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Oliver Chair from 2011-2017. Levin is a marine ecologist who studies benthic ecosystems in the deep sea and shallow water. Together with her students, she has worked with a broad range of taxa, from microbes and microalgae to invertebrates, fishes and whales. Levin is the author or co-author of more than 275 scientific publications. Dr Levin is a ‘Fellow of the Association’ of AAAS in Biological Sciences and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dr Levin is founder and co-lead of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI). She has also been awarded the American Association of Limnology and Oceanography’s Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and the Prince Albert I Grand Medal in Ocean Science in 2019.
