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Search Committee Members

Faculty

Frances H. Arnold
Nobel Laureate; Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center

Azita Emami
Vice Chair of the Faculty; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Director, Center for Sensing to Intelligence

Woodward Fischer
Professor of Geobiology

Dimitri P. Mawet
David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist

Dianne K. Newman
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Merkin Institute Professor

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (PhD '88)
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics; Director, Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences

Christopher M. (Chris) Umans
Professor of Computer Science; William M. Coughran Jr. Leadership Chair, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Barbara J. Wold (PhD '78)
Bren Professor of Molecular Biology; Merkin Institute Professor

Jonas Zmuidzinas (BS'81) (Committee Chair)
Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics

Trustees

Barbara M. Barrett
Vice Chair, Caltech Board of Trustees member, and Chair of the JPL Committee

Taylor W. Lawrence (BS '86)
Caltech Board of Trustees member, and Chair of the Executive Compensation Committee