Primary Job Title Interim Director Primary Organization 
Space Telescope Science Institute
Location Baltimore, Maryland, United States Regions Greater Baltimore-Maryland Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Female
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Nancy A. Levenson is the Interim Director at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Nancy Levenson earned bachelor's degrees from Harvard University and the University of Oxford before receiving a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. After postdoctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University, she joined the
faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kentucky in 2002, joining Gemini in 2009. Nancy's primary research interests are active galaxies and star formation in their nuclei, which she explores over a range of wavelengths, from the mid-infrared through X-rays.
