Michael Levitt

2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Tenured Professor of the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University

Honorary Dean of the Multiscale Research Institute for Complex Systems, Fudan University

Professor Michael Levitt, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a tenured professor of the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University. Professor Levitt pioneered molecular dynamics simulation methods for proteins and DNA, and has been working on critical assessments of protein structure prediction techniques, studying protein structure folding and packaging, and developing scoring systems for large-scale sequence structure comparisons. In 2018, he officially joined Fudan University and founded the Multiscale Research  

Institute of Complex Systems.

Professor Michael Levitt shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two other scientists for his pioneering work complex chemical systems create multiscale models; for original contributions in the field of structural and computational biology, he won the 2014 Computational Biology Delano Award of the American Society of Biochemistry and Biomolecules.

Professor Michael Levitt has long served as a member of the editorial board of the top comprehensive journal PNAS, and is the editor and member of the editorial board of the top journals in the fields of molecular biology and computational biology, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, Journal of Molecular Biology and PLoS Computational Biology. For a long time, he has published nearly 300 articles in top journals related to computational and structural biology such as Nature, Science, PNAS, etc., and his Google Scholar citations have exceeded 30,000 times, and his corresponding H index has reached 90.