President Biden Announces Members of President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Thirty Distinguished Leaders Represent Most Diverse PCAST successful U.S. History, Will Develop Science and Technology Recommendations to Address Nation’s Most Pressing Challenges   WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced 30 of America’s astir distinguished leaders successful subject and exertion arsenic members of his President’s Council of Advisors connected Science and Technology (PCAST). A nonstop descendant of the technological advisory committee established by President Eisenhower successful 1957 successful the weeks aft the motorboat of Sputnik, PCAST is the sole assemblage of outer advisors charged with making science, technology, and innovation argumentation recommendations to the President and the White House.

Drawing from the nation’s astir talented and accomplished individuals, President Biden’s PCAST includes 20 elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 5 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows, 2 erstwhile Cabinet secretaries, and 2 Nobel laureates. Its members see experts successful astrophysics and agriculture, biochemistry and machine engineering, ecology and entrepreneurship, immunology and nanotechnology, neuroscience and nationalist security, societal subject and cybersecurity, and more.

The members represent the astir divers PCAST successful U.S. history. PCAST is traditionally co-chaired by the President’s Science Advisor and 1-2 outer co-chairs; since its inception successful 1957, nary women person ever served arsenic co-chairs. President Biden’s PCAST has 2 women co-chairs. And, this PCAST reflects the President’s committedness to physique an Administration that genuinely looks similar America: for the archetypal clip ever, women marque up fractional of PCAST, and radical of colour and immigrants marque up much than one-third of PCAST. Its diverseness volition assistance the assembly bring to carnivore a wide scope of perspectives to code the nation’s astir pressing opportunities and challenges, truthful that science, technology, and engineering benefits each Americans.

“The aboriginal of America depends connected subject and exertion similar ne'er before,” said PCAST Co-Chair and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dr. Eric Lander. “President Biden understands that addressing the opportunities and challenges we look – to our health, our planet, our economical prosperity, and our nationalist information – volition necessitate harnessing the afloat powerfulness of subject and technology. Scientific advancement depends connected radical seeing things successful caller ways, due to the fact that they bring antithetic lenses, antithetic experiences, antithetic passions, antithetic questions. This PCAST is uniquely prepared due to the fact that of its bonzer technological breadth, wide scope of enactment experiences, and unprecedented diversity.”

“We are thrilled that immoderate of our astir accomplished Americans are consenting to measurement up and service the federation by being members of PCAST,” saidPCAST Co-Chair Dr. Frances Arnold. “Their immense expertise volition assistance the federation physique backmost amended done subject and technology.” 

“Science and exertion permeate truthful galore elements of authorities determination making,” said PCAST Co-Chair Dr. Maria Zuber. “I americium excited to bring this historical and superb group’s knowledge, experience, and innovative reasoning to carnivore connected the nation’s toughest challenges successful subject and exertion and navigate an equitable and inclusive way guardant for the nation.”

As directed successful the President’s enforcement bid establishing PCAST, the assembly includes advisors from extracurricular the national authorities who are liable for advising the President “on matters involving argumentation affecting science, technology, and innovation, arsenic good arsenic connected matters involving technological and technological accusation that is needed to pass nationalist argumentation relating to the economy, idiosyncratic empowerment, education, energy, the environment, nationalist health, nationalist and homeland security, radical equity, and different topics.”

Read much astir the PCAST members below. Additional accusation astir PCAST and the PCAST members tin beryllium recovered astatine www.whitehouse.gov/PCAST.

PCAST CO-CHAIRS

Frances Arnold, Ph.D., is a biochemical technologist who pioneered however to harness improvement to make proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize successful Chemistry and became the archetypal American pistillate to bash so. She holds much than 60 U.S. patents and co-founded 3 companies successful sustainable fuels, chemistry, and agriculture. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry astatine the California Institute of Technology.

Eric Lander, Ph.D., is simply a geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician who serves arsenic the President’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and is simply a subordinate of the President’s Cabinet. One of the nation’s starring beingness scientists, helium was a main person of the Human Genome Project and was president and founding manager of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, which propels enactment connected genomic medicine. He was PCAST’s outer co-chair during each 8 years of the Obama-Biden administration.  

Maria T. Zuber, Ph.D., is a geophysicist and planetary idiosyncratic who has produced respective topography and gravity maps of planetary bodies that transcend the quality and resolution of those for Earth. She has led a twelve experiments connected 10 NASA missions and was the archetypal pistillate to pb a NASA planetary mission. She is the Vice President for Research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics astatine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), wherever she was the archetypal pistillate to pb 1 of the university’s subject departments.

PCAST MEMBERS

Marvin Adams, Ph.D., P.E., is simply a atomic technologist and computational physicist who develops and applies analyzable computational algorithms to problems related to atomic vigor and nationalist security. He has acquisition successful atomic reactor physics and design, atomic weapons investigation and modernization, counterproliferation, and arms control. He chairs the Mission Committee astatine Los Alamos National Laboratory, which oversees the laboratory’s weapons and planetary information programs, serves connected the Nuclear Effects Advisory Panel for the U.S. Department of Defense, and has served for respective years connected the Stockpile Assessment Team for U.S. Strategic Command. He is the HTRI Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Regents Fellow, and Director of National Laboratories Mission Support successful the Texas A&M University System.

Dan E. Arvizu, Ph.D., is simply a mechanical technologist and an adept successful vigor materials, process sciences, and exertion commercialization with implicit 30 years of acquisition successful assorted roles astatine Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories. He served arsenic Director and Chief Executive of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory during the Obama-Biden administration, successful which relation helium was the archetypal Hispanic to pb a DOE nationalist laboratory. Currently helium is simply a person successful higher acquisition arsenic the Chancellor of the New Mexico State University System, a Land Grant, Space Grant, Hispanic-Serving Institution, bringing a absorption connected harnessing education, research, and outreach initiatives to foster economical improvement and societal mobility.

John Banovetz, Ph.D., is simply a chemist, materials scientist, and concern person with implicit 25 years’ acquisition successful firm probe and exertion development, manufacturing, strategy, innovation, and biology stewardship. He holds aggregate patents successful polymer subject and adhesives, and oversees much than 8,000 researchers worldwide successful his relation arsenic the Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Environmental Responsibility astatine 3M Company, a starring industrial, idiosyncratic safety, wellness care, and user goods manufacturing company.

Ashton Carter, D.Phil., is simply a physicist and technologist who served arsenic the 25^th U.S. Secretary of Defense. While serving successful the Obama-Biden administration’s Cabinet, helium built and restored bridges betwixt the Pentagon and America’s private-sector exertion and innovation ecosystem, designed and executed the Defense Department’s strategical pivot to the Asia-Pacific region, opened each the military’s combat positions to women, and lifted the prohibition connected transgender work members. He is Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs astatine Harvard University. 

Frances Colón, Ph.D., is simply a neuroscientist and subject diplomat who served arsenic Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State during the Obama-Biden administration. Her divers acquisition successful subject diplomacy has included coordinating clime alteration argumentation for the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, helping American migrant scientists physique networks of scientists to lick problems successful their countries of origin, moving to beforehand the careers of women and girls successful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and starring technological re-engagement with Cuba. Born and raised successful Puerto Rico, Colón is presently the Senior Director for International Climate astatine the Center for American Progress.

Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., is an interior medicine physician, societal epidemiologist, and wellness services researcher who was among the archetypal to papers however doctor-patient relationships tin assistance flooded radical and taste disparities successful healthcare. Born successful Liberia, she is 1 of the United States’ starring researchers and practitioners successful the tract of wellness equity, having designed innovative approaches to amended physicians’ connection skills, patients’ self-management skills, and the quality of healthcare organizations to code the needs of populations experiencing wellness disparities. She serves arsenic the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Equity successful Health and Healthcare astatine Johns Hopkins University, and is Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.

John O. Dabiri, Ph.D., is an aeronautical technologist who designs next-generation upwind turbines with the imaginable to trim cost, size, and biology impacts portion maximizing the magnitude of energy generated. His discoveries connected the perfect placement of upwind turbines were shaped by his cross-disciplinary probe into however jellyfish and schools of food determination passim the water efficiently. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship, helium is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering astatine the California Institute of Technology.

William Dally, Ph.D., is simply a machine idiosyncratic who invented hardware architectures that powerfulness parallel computing, modern supercomputers, and artificial quality arsenic we cognize it today; helium holds 120 patents and has authored much than 250 papers and 4 textbooks successful these fields. The erstwhile seat of Stanford University’s machine subject section and a predominant advisor to galore authorities defence and quality agencies connected high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, helium is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President for Research astatine NVIDIA, a starring machine spot and exertion company.

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician-scientist who led the improvement of the archetypal gene-targeted cause for treating bosom cancer. Her medical, scientific, and philanthropic vocation spans 40 years: from world medicine and objective signifier studying crab and HIV/AIDS, to moving probe and merchandise improvement astatine immoderate of America’s apical biotechnology companies, to starring higher acquisition astatine 1 of California’s marquis postgraduate institutions, to moving the world’s largest backstage foundation. She is the erstwhile CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and antecedently served arsenic Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), wherever she was the archetypal pistillate to clasp that role.

Inez Fung, Sc.D., is an atmospheric idiosyncratic and 1 of the world’s starring experts connected clime and the c rhythm – however c dioxide moves passim the land, oceans, and the ambiance – and however its question some depends connected and alters our planet’s climate. An migrant to the United States from Hong Kong and a contributor to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel connected Climate Change, she is simply a Professor of Atmospheric Science astatine the University of California, Berkeley, and was the 2nd pistillate to postgraduate from MIT with a doctorate successful meteorology. 

Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a pioneer successful the tract of wireless communications whose discoveries person influenced cellular and WiFi networks each implicit the world: from powering the latest generations of high-speed wireless, to enabling astute location appliances, to preventing compartment telephone calls from dropping erstwhile we locomotion oregon thrust down the street. She is the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering astatine Princeton University, and was the archetypal pistillate to triumph the Marconi Prize, the highest grant successful telecommunications research.

Laura H. Greene, Ph.D., is simply a physicist and adept successful quantum mechanics known for her discoveries and probe successful unconventional superconducting materials and precocious magnetic fields. She is besides a starring advocator for diverseness successful subject and a champion for women successful technological and engineering fields, having promoted the interaction of women and young scientists astir the world, peculiarly successful processing countries. She is the Chief Scientist of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory) and the Marie Krafft Professor of Physics astatine Florida State University.

Paula Hammond, Ph.D., is simply a chemic technologist who designs nanoscale materials that tin present drugs to circumstantial parts of the body. Her enactment includes designing tiny particles that people chemotherapy drugs straight to tumor cells, and nanostructured dressings that rapidly halt bleeding to prevention the lives of soldiers wounded connected the battlefield. She is simply a starring researcher successful however to usage polymers, nanotechnology, and biomaterials to amended quality health. In her past work, she has designed polymers to amended batteries, star cells, and alternate substance cells. She is Head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering – wherever she was the archetypal pistillate and idiosyncratic of colour to clasp that presumption – and an Institute Professor and subordinate of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research astatine MIT.

Eric Horvitz, Ph.D., M.D., is simply a machine idiosyncratic and a starring researcher successful artificial quality (AI) and issues astatine the intersection of technology, people, and nine – including the method and societal challenges and opportunities presented by AI’s uses. He has made influential contributions with processing and fielding frontier technologies successful biomedicine, transportation, aerospace, and computing systems and services, and helium has been awarded the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Award for advances successful AI. He is Chief Scientific Officer astatine Microsoft, wherever helium antecedently led Microsoft Research.

Joe Kiani,M.S.E.E., is an technologist and entrepreneur who invented breakthrough technologies – present utilized successful hospitals, homes, and adjacent connected our wrists – that usage airy to measurement however overmuch oxygen is successful a person’s blood. He is listed connected much than 500 patents oregon patent applications connected precocious awesome processing, optical sensors, and wearable technologies. An migrant to the United States from Iran astatine property nine, helium is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Masimo Corporation, a planetary aesculapian exertion institution known for its pulse oximetry devices and different noninvasive diligent monitoring technologies.

Jonathan Levin, Ph.D., is an economist and world person wide recognized for his probe successful concern organization, technological change, wellness insurance, allocation of vigor spectrum, and the economics of net markets. In 2011, helium was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal – awarded each twelvemonth to the American economist nether property 40 who is judged to person made the astir important publication to economical thought and cognition – which is considered to beryllium among the astir noteworthy prizes successful the tract of economics, 2nd lone to the Nobel Memorial Prize successful Economic Sciences. He is presently the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Business astatine Stanford University.

Steve Pacala, Ph.D., is an ecologist and biology biologist who designs and tests mathematical models to analyse interactions betwixt greenhouse gases, climate, and the biosphere, and to foretell their effects connected section and planetary ecosystems. He is the co-author of the clime stabilization “wedge” approach, which argued implicit 15 years agone that clime alteration could beryllium solved utilizing science, technologies and industries already wrong humanity’s grasp. He is the Frederick D. Petrie Professor successful the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology astatine Princeton University.

Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and cosmologist who received the Nobel Prize successful Physics for discovering that the enlargement of our beingness is accelerating. He leads 1 of NASA’s subject teams for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and besides develops and teaches courses connected scientific-style captious reasoning for scientists and nonscientists alike. Further honors for his groundbreaking probe see the Shaw Prize successful Astronomy, the Breakthrough Prize successful Fundamental Physics, and the Albert Einstein Medal. He is the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Professor of Physics and Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science astatine University of California, Berkeley and Senior Scientist astatine Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

William Press, Ph.D., is a machine scientist, computational biologist, and astrophysicist who co-discovered the mathematical exemplary for predicting the organisation of masses of galaxies passim the universe. He antecedently served arsenic lawman manager of Los Alamos National Laboratory and arsenic the Vice-Chair of PCAST during the Obama-Biden administration. He has wide-ranging acquisition arsenic a researcher and manager crossed the carnal and beingness sciences successful universities and nationalist laboratories, including applications to nationalist information issues. He is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Science and Integrative Biology astatine The University of Texas astatine Austin.

Penny Pritzker, J.D., M.B.A., is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and civic person who served arsenic the 38^th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. As a Cabinet subordinate during the Obama-Biden administration, Pritzker launched and managed the Manufacturing USA web of 16 determination innovation hubs, oversaw the nation’s commercialized and atmospheric subject and exertion agencies, led broadband deployment for underserved communities, administered programs for enhancing cybersecurity, privacy, and intelligence property, and launched the Commerce Department’s first-ever skilled workforce grooming initiative. She is Chairman and Founder of PSP Partners, Chairman of the Board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and founded and built respective starring businesses implicit the people of her career.

Jennifer Richeson, Ph.D., is simply a societal scientist whose probe has illuminated however identities – peculiarly radical identities – are formed and shaped done interactions with others. She is 1 of America’s starring scholars of interracial interactions, radical identity, bias and prejudice, taste diversity, societal inequality, and injustice. She has received aggregate prestigious awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception and Communication Lab astatine Yale University.

Vicki Sato, Ph.D., is a biologist, immunologist, and biotechnology enforcement with decades of acquisition starring teams successful cause probe and development. Molecules and therapeutics developed nether her enactment person go captious treatments for HIV, cystic fibrosis, inflammation, aggregate sclerosis, and Hepatitis C. She was Chief Science Officer and yet President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 1 of the archetypal biotechnology companies to usage structure-based and computational chemistries successful the plan of caller drugs. Sato spent respective years arsenic Professor of the Practice successful the section of Molecular and Cell Biology astatine Harvard University and Professor of Management Practice astatine Harvard Business School, wherever her enactment focused connected productivity and innovation successful biotechnology and pharmaceutical probe and development.

Lisa T. Su, Ph.D., is an electrical technologist who is an adept successful semiconductor devices and high-performance processors.  She pioneered caller ways to link machine chips utilizing copper alternatively of aluminum, resulting successful 20% faster spot speeds. An American migrant from Taiwan, she is President and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a starring semiconductor and microprocessor company. She is simply a recipient of the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (the archetypal pistillate to person the award), and has been named Fortune Magazine’s #2 “Business Person of the Year” for 2020 and 1 of Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” of 2019.

Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D., is a geologist, erstwhile NASA astronaut, and oceanographer who served arsenic Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during the Obama-Biden administration. Sullivan flew connected 3 Space Shuttle missions, including the ngo that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. She was the archetypal American pistillate to locomotion successful space, the archetypal pistillate to dive to the Challenger Deep successful the Mariana Trench (the deepest portion of the Earth’s oceans), and is the archetypal and lone idiosyncratic to bash both. She has antecedently served successful enactment positions successful Ohio’s Center of Science and Industry, higher education, the backstage sector, and the national government, including arsenic NOAA’s main scientist.

Terence Tao, Ph.D., is a mathematician known for his breadth of accomplishment successful probe covering some axenic and applied mathematics, including important contributions to compressive sensing (used successful awesome processing and cryptography) and fig theory. He is simply a recipient of the Fields Medal, which is often described arsenic the Nobel Prize of mathematics, and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. An American migrant from Australia, helium is Professor of Mathematics and the James and Carol Collins Chair successful the College of Letters and Sciences astatine the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Phil Venables, M.Sc., is a machine scientist, bundle engineer, and adept successful technology, security, and endeavor hazard who has co-founded and led aggregate firm and industry-wide cybersecurity initiatives focused connected safeguarding captious infrastructure successful the fiscal sector. This includes Sheltered Harbor, FS-ARC, and FS-ISAC, which collectively provide a sector-wide capableness to prevent, detect, respond, and retrieve from cyberattacks against the planetary fiscal system. He is Chief Information Security Officer astatine Google Cloud, a subordinate of the NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, a Distinguished Expert for the National Security Agency’s Science of Security program, co-founder of the Center for Internet Security, and antecedently was a Partner, Chief Information Security Officer, and Chief Operational Risk Officer astatine Goldman Sachs.

Catherine Woteki, Ph.D., is an agriculture and nutrient idiosyncratic and nutritionist who served successful the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) arsenic Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics during the Obama-Biden administration, wherever she oversaw USDA’S Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service. One of the nation’s starring researchers successful the fields of quality nutrition, nutrient safety, agriculture, and wellness policy, she antecedently served arsenic USDA’s archetypal Under Secretary of Food Safety. She is Visiting Distinguished Institute Professor successful the Biocomplexity Institute astatine the University of Virginia and Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition astatine Iowa State University.