Michael Levi is a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and Director of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).  Levi was appointed project director for DESI in 2012.  In this position, he built an international collaboration of more than 1000 scientists and successfully oversaw the project’s $75M construction creating the world’s most powerful multi-fiber spectrometer. For delivering the instrument on time and under budget, the DESI project team received DOE’s prestigious Project Management Excellence Award in 2020. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1984, and began working at Berkeley Lab in 1987.  As an experimental physicist he has participated in numerous projects ranging from high-energy particle physics to cosmology.  Levi is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.