Angela M. Belcher | |
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Citizenship | United States |
Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1997) |
Known for | Viral assembly of nanotechnology |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2004) Beckman Young Investigators Award (2000)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biological engineering materials science |
Institutions | MIT |
Thesis | Spatial and temporal resolution of interfaces, phase transitions and isolation of three families of proteins in calcium carbonate based biocomposite materials (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Galen D. Stucky |
Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[2] She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow. In 2019, she was named head of the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT.[3] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[4]