Frances H. Arnold

Frances H. Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she also serves as Director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center. Her research spans Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, and Organic Chemistry. She is affiliated with the CHEM department at Caltech.

Frances Arnold is a Professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, known for her pioneering work in biocatalysis, enzyme technology, protein engineering, synthetic biology, and directed evolution. Her research focuses on developing new methods to engineer enzymes for industrial and environmental applications, leveraging directed evolution to create proteins with novel catalytic activities. Arnold's work has significantly advanced the fields of synthetic biology and protein engineering through the design of microbial consortia and synthetic multicellular systems. Her publications explore the interplay between protein stability, evolvability, and fitness landscapes, emphasizing the potential of machine learning in guiding protein evolution.