Status
Permanent CEA researcher
- Responsible for the liquid-phase platform of the FastNano project (PEPR DIADEM)
Research Interests
- Non-classical crystal nucleation and growth pathways of inorganic materials
- Fluidic sample environments for in situ X-ray scattering: automation for high-throughput materials synthesis and characterization
- Optimization of cementitious and carbonation reactions in low-CO2 cements
CV
2021-
Permanent researcher in the LIONS Laboratory, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, FR
2019-2020
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Supervisor: Amy J. Wagoner Johnson
2015-2019
PhD, University of Leeds, UK
Supervisors: Nik Kapur and Fiona Meldrum
Thesis: Micro- and Milli-fluidic Systems for X-ray Scattering Analysis of Crystallization Processes
2014-2015
MSc, University of Leeds, UK
2014
US-UK Fulbright Scholar
2010-2014
BS (Mechanical Engineering) – Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA
2010-2014
Research assistant in the Biomicrofluidics Laboratory, Old Dominion University
Supervisors: Ali Beskok, Shizhi Qian, Michael Stacey
Selected Publications
● Serial Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering with Laboratory Sources, M. A. Levenstein,* K. Robertson, T. Turner, L. Hunter, C. O’Brien, C. O’Shaughnessy, A. N. Kulak, P. Le Magueres, J. Wojciechowski, O. O. Mykhaylyk, N. Kapur, F. C. Meldrum, IUCrJ, 2022, 9, 538. DOI: 10.1107/S2052252522007631
● Composite Substrates Reveal Inorganic Material Cues for Coral Larval Settlement, M. A. Levenstein,* K. L. Marhaver, Z. A. Quinlan, H. M. Tholen, L. Tichy, J. Yus, I. Lightcap, L. Wegley Kelly, G. Juarez, M. J. A. Vermeij, A. J. Wagoner Johnson, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2022, 10, 3960. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c08313. Journal Front Cover
● Evaluation of Microflow Configurations for Scale Inhibition and Serial X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Crystallization Processes, M. A. Levenstein, Y.-Y. Kim, L. Hunter, C. Anduix-Canto, C. González Niño, S. J. Day, S. Li, W. J. Marchant, P. A. Lee, C. C. Tang, M. Burghammer, F. C. Meldrum and N. Kapur, Lab on a Chip, 2020, 20, 2954. DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00239A.
● Dynamic Crystallization Pathways of Polymorphic Pharmaceuticals Revealed in Segmented-Flow with Inline Powder X-ray Diffraction, M. A. Levenstein,# L. Wayment,# D. Scott, R. Lunt, P.-B. Flandrin, S. J. Day, C. C. Tang, C. C. Wilson, F. C. Meldrum, N. Kapur, and K. Robertson, Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 92, 7754. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00860.
● Ptychographic X-ray Tomography Reveals Additive Zoning in Nanocomposite Single Crystal, J. Ihli,# M. A. Levenstein,# Y.-Y. Kim, K. Wakonig, Y. Ning, A. Tatani, A. N. Kulak, D. C. Green, M. Holler, S. P. Armes, A. Menzel, and F. C. Meldrum, Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 355. DOI: 10.1039/C9SC04670D. 2019 Chemical Science HOT Article
● Droplet Microfluidics Synchrotron XRD Identifies Effective Nucleating Agents for Calcium Carbonate, M. A. Levenstein, C. Anduix-Canto, Y.-Y. Kim, M. A. Holden, C. González Niño, D. C. Green, S. E. Foster, A. N. Kulak, L. Govada, N. E. Chayen, S. J. Day, C. C. Tang, B. Weinhausen, M. Burghammer, N. Kapur and F. C. Meldrum, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 29, 1808172. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201808172.
Art in Science
Finalist, Art in Science contest, MMC2019, Manchester, UK Winner, Research Image Contest, Beckman Institute, 2020