Lev was an NRC postdoc[6] at JILA with (2006-2007) Jun Ye and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008-2011).
[7] Lev's research focuses on exploring quantum many-body physics, especially in nonequilibrium settings.
The contributions of his group include: Lev has received several awards for his work, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama.
[24][25] and a Packard Foundation Fellowship,[26] as well as National Science Foundation CAREER Award[27] and Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program awards.
[28][29][30] Lev was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society[31] ``for groundbreaking experiments on quantum gases of lanthanide atoms with large magnetic dipole moments, theoretically proposing and experimentally demonstrating many-body multimode cavity QED for many-body physics and the demonstration of novel scanning quantum gas imaging of quantum materials."