Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

Magnetic Resonance
Endofullerenes

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Malcolm

Email: mhl@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6753

Address: B27, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Research

Research groups

Member of:

Research interests

Magnetic Resonance
Endofullerenes

Research projects

Active projects

The Spectroscopy and Quantum Mechanics of C70-Based Endofullerenes

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Whitby

Water Inside A Superconductor? An Exploration Of Superconducting Endofullerides

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Whitby

Completed projects

Atomic and Molecular Endofullerenes: Spins in a box

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Whitby

Sponsor: EPSRC

A Multidisciplinary Research Platform for Nuclear Spins far from Equilibrium

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Brown ,

Doctor Giuseppe Pileio ,

Professor Marina Carravetta ,

Professor Richard Whitby

Sponsor: EPSRC

BBS/B/04382 Picometre Structural Resolution

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Brown

Sponsor: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council

2004/R3 Solid-State NMR of Rapidly-Rotating Samples

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

2005/R2 Multiple-Quantum 170 NMR in Solids

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

EP/D079209/1 Long-lived Spin States

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

EP/E022375/1 Mutispin Recoupling

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

GR/S40640/01 Recoupling Techniques in Solid-State NMR

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

EP/C00664X/1 - cryoMAS

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Yifeng Yang ,

Doctor Joern Werner

Sponsor: EPSRC

Realising the potential of cryogenic magic-angle spinning NMR

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Yifeng Yang ,

Doctor Joern Werner

Sponsor: EPSRC

Magnetic Resonance of Dihydrogen Endofullerenes

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Marina Carravetta ,

Professor Richard Whitby

Sponsor: EPSRC

Hyperpolarised Singlet

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Brown

Sponsor: EPSRC

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

Molecular Endofullerenes

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Whitby

Sponsor: EPSRC

Hyperpolarised long-lived states and their applications - RS IES

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

Long-lived Nuclear Hyperpolarization of Methyl Groups

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Brown

Sponsor: EPSRC

PhD Plus Scheme

Researchers:

Professor John Preston ,

Professor Peter G.R. Smith ,

Professor Martin Browne ,

Professor Eugen Stulz ,

Professor Stephen Gabriel ,

Professor Malcolm Levitt ,

Doctor Andrew Chipperfield ,

Professor Nikolay Zheludev ,

Professor David Harrowven ,

Professor Richard Watson ,

Professor Tim Freegarde

Sponsor: EPSRC

Hyperpolarization on Tap (HoT)

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

NMR over 9 orders of magnitude in magnetic field

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

MSCA-IF-NuMagLongRxNuMagLongRx

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor Richard Brown

Sponsor: European Union

HPMF-CT-2002-01917 Marie Curie Fellowship (Van Beek)

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Nuffield Foundation Research Bursaries 2010

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Nuffield Foundation

Zero and ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Nuclear magnetic long-lived state relaxation

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Singlet Nuclear resonance: from theory into practice

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust

Functionalized Magnetic Resonance Beacons for Enhanced Spectroscopy and Imaging

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: European Union

Visiting Professorship for Phillip Kuchel

Researchers:

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust

HyperStore: Singlet States and supercritical fluids for storage and transport of hyperpolarised spin order

Researchers:

Doctor Giuseppe Pileio

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

Underpinning Equipment for Magnetic Resonance Research

Researchers:

Professor Mark Spearing

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: EPSRC

paraQchip - Parahydrogen-Induced Hyperpolarisation On A Chip For Microfluidic Perfusion Culture

Researchers:

Professor Richard Whitby ,

Professor Malcolm Levitt ,

Professor Ilya Kuprov

Sponsor: EPSRC

Understanding structure-property relationships in defect-free nanosized zeolites using advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Researchers:

Professor Marina Carravetta

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Sponsor: Royal Society

Joern Werner Wellcome Trust NMR Equipment

Researchers:

Doctor Joern Werner

Professor Marina Carravetta ,

Professor Malcolm Levitt ,

Professor Phil Williamson

Sponsor: Wellcome Trust

Biography

Prof Malcolm Levitt joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton in 2000, as Professor in Physical Chemistry. He is a specialist in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and the interdisciplinary study of endofullerenes.

'My twin joys are magnetic resonance and endofullerenes: both topics bring one into direct contact with the quantum world.'

Malcolm Levitt grew up in Hull and obtained his PhD from Oxford University in 1981, under the supervision of Professor Ray Freeman. He performed postdoctoral research with Shimon Vega in Israel and Richard Ernst at the ETH in Zürich (who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991). He was then on the research staff at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at MIT, Boston, USA, for 4 years. He moved back to England as a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Centre for Superconductivity in Cambridge, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, where he was made a full professor in 1997. He moved back to England to take up a Professorship in Physical Chemistry at Southampton in April 2001.

Principal honours: LATSIS Research Prize of ETH-Zürich, 1985. Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry, Sweden, 1996. Ampère Prize of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance, 2005. Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society of Magnetic Resonance, 2006. Adjunct Professorship of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, 2006. Fellow of the Royal Society, 2007. Laukien Prize in Magnetic Resonance, 2008. Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance, 2008. Craig Lectureship, Australian National University, 2010. Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2012. Russell Varian Prize in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2015. Paul Callaghan Lecture, 2019. Yusuf Hamied Visiting Professorship, 2020, Davy Medal, 2021.

Read more about Malcom receiving the prestigious Royal Society Medal.

Apart from science, he composes music, plays jazz, paints and sketches, and is interested in art, languages and politics.

Prizes

LATSIS prize of ETH-Zürich (1985)
Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry (1996)
Ampère Prize of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (2005)
Günther Laukien Prize in Magnetic Resonance (2008)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (2008)
John Francis Vigani Lectureship (2008)
Russell Varian Prize in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (2015)
Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society of Magnetic Resonance (2006)
Paul Callaghan Lecture (2019)
Craig Lectureship (2010)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017)
Davy Medal (2021)
Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2021)