Prof. Michael Levin
Professor at Tufts University; Director of the Allen Discovery Center
Developmental biology • bioelectricity • behavior science • and emergent intelligence
About the expert
Focus: Developmental biology, bioelectricity, and emergent intelligence
Michael Levin is Professor at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center. His research focuses on how embodied minds arise and function in the physical world. He publishes raw recordings of academic discussions and interviews on his Michael Levin's Academic Content YouTube channel as an open-science forum for working scientific dialogue.
Why this matters
Professor at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center. Levin's research focuses on developmental biology, bioelectricity, and the foundations of cognition and behavior. He is a leading voice in a frontier area of biology (bioelectric signaling as an organizing principle) — academically rigorous on the developmental-biology base, exploratory and explicitly so at the edges where bioelectricity touches consciousness and behavior.