Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold
	Arnold in 2021
Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 20, 2021 Serving with Maria Zuber and Francis Collins
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Position established
Personal details
Born	Frances Hamilton Arnold; July 25, 1956; Edgewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse	Jay Bailey (divorced) (1987–1991)
Domestic partner	Andrew E. Lange (1994–2010)
Children	3
Education	Princeton University (BS); University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Awards	Garvan–Olin Medal (2005); FASEB Excellence in Science Award (2007); Draper Prize (2011); National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013); Millennium Technology Prize (2016); Sackler Prize in Convergence Research (2017); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemical engineering; Bioengineering; Biochemistry
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Design and Scale-Up of Affinity Separations (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Harvey Blanch
Doctoral students	Christopher Voigt; Huimin Zhao;

Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.

Since January 2021, she serves as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

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