Barbara Levi

Barbara Goss Levi earned a PhD in particle physics from Stanford University in 1971. For most of the past 30 years, she has written for Physics Today magazine, reporting on new discoveries at the frontiers of physics. After rising to senior editor, she was in charge of Physics Today's news section, "Search and Discovery". In January of 2003, she stepped down from that post and now serves as a contributing editor. Her stories cover the full range of topics in physics today, from atomic to astrophysics, from condensed matter to geophysics.

Because of Dr. Levi's interest in issues at the interface of physics and society, she became a consultant for the US Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, from the late 1970s to the Office's closure in 1995. From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Levi was a member of the research staff at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Her work there on arms control and the effects of nuclear weapons resulted in, among others, two articles in Scientific American.

Dr. Levi has been an active member of the American Physical Society (APS). She was the chair of the APS Forum of Physics and Society and co-edited a book on global warming produced under the Forum's auspices. She served on the APS Executive Board and is currently a member of its Panel on Public Affairs. She has served on the Governing Council of the Federation of American Scientists and on the steering committee of the physics section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

She is a fellow of both the APS and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.