Mark Levinson is the award-winning director of the documentary feature Particle Fever about the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider experiment outside of Geneva. The film won the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication and the National Academies of Science Communication Award. Before embarking on a film career, Mark earned a PhD in particle physics from UC Berkeley. In the film world he was a specialist in the post-production writing and recording of dialogue, working on over 40 feature films including The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Johnny Mnemonic and The Social Network. He directed the fiction film Prisoner of Time about two former Russian dissident artists after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the hybrid film The Bit Player about Claude Shannon, “The Father of Information Theory.” Mark is currently adapting Richard Powers’s award-winning novel, The Gold Bug Variations, into a feature film.