Frances Arnold
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
Frances Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. She is also a co-founder of the biofuel startup Gevo and serves on the science advisory boards of advanced biofuel companies Amyris, Mascoma and Codexis, as well as the Joint BioEnergy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Arnold's work on enzymatic cellulose degradation was recently profiled in Technology Review as one of the 10 emerging technologies for 2008. She holds more than 20 patents and patent applications, has co-authored 220 scientific publications and edited several books on protein engineering and laboratory protein evolution. Arnold was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2004. Recent awards and honors include the Linnaeus Lectureship at Uppsala University in Sweden and the Genencor Award in Enzyme Engineering. She received a bachelor's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley.
Panels:
Investing in the Future: Accelerating the Clean-Tech Revolution
The Race to the Finish: Next Gen Biofuels
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