Angela Belcher

Angela M. Belcher
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (B.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1997)
Known forViral assembly of nanotechnology
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2004)
Beckman Young Investigators Award (2000)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiological engineering
materials science
InstitutionsMIT
ThesisSpatial and temporal resolution of interfaces, phase transitions and isolation of three families of proteins in calcium carbonate based biocomposite materials (1997)
Doctoral advisorGalen 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]

  1. ^ "Angela M. Belcher". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  2. ^ DMSE - Faculty - Angela Belcher. Archived November 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. ^ "Angela Belcher named head of the Department of Biological Engineering". MIT News. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  4. ^ "2022 NAS Election".