演讲人简介

Bruce Alberts began service as editor-in-chief of Science on March 1, 2008. Alberts is also a professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, a position he returned to in 2005, after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C.

During his tenure at the NAS, Alberts was instrumental in developing the landmark National Science Education standards that have been implemented in school systems nationwide. Alberts is also noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a pre-eminent textbook in the field now in its fifth edition. For the period 2000 to 2009, he serves as the co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, a new organization in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of sciences and established to provide scientific advice to the world.

Widely recognized for his work in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, Alberts has earned many honors and awards, including 15 honorary degrees. He currently serves on the advisory boards of more than 25 nonprofit institutions. He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a Trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the immediate past president of the American Society of Cell Biology.