Frances H. Arnold has served on Alphabet's Board since 2019 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and Director of the Rosen Bioengineering Center at the California Institute of Technology, which she joined in 1986.
Her laboratory focuses on protein engineering by directed evolution; she is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Millennium Technology Prize, and the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.