Chris Somerville#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2014-present Adjunct Professor, Department of Arid Land Agriculture, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 2009-present Philomathia Chair in Alternative Energy, UC Berkeley
• 2007-present Director, Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley
• 2007 Professor, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
• 2006-2011 Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• 1994-2007 Director, Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Plant Biology
• 1994-2008 Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

• Biochemistry
• Plant and microbial genetics
• Characterization of proteins implicated in plant cell-wall synthesis and modification
• Genomics
• Biotechnology

• 2012 D.Sc. Michigan State University
• 2010 EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award
• 2010 American Chemical Society Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lectureship Award
• 2006 Philomathia Endowed Chair, UC Berkeley
• 2007 Fellow American Society of Plant Biologists
• 2006 Balzan Prize
• 2006 DSc., Guelph University
• 2004 Fellow of AAAS
• 2004 Genetics Society, Mendel Medal
• 2004 Biochemical Society, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Medal
• 2002 Academia Europaea
• 2001 Kuhmo Award
• 1998 D.Sc., Wageningen University
• 1998-2001 Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
• 1997 D.Sc., University of Alberta
• 1996 Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• 1993 D.Sc., Queens University
• 1993 American Society of Plant Physiologists Gibbs Medal
• 1993 Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
• 1992 Humbolt Senior Research Award
• 1991 Elected Fellow of Royal Society London
• 1987 Schull Award, American Society of Plant Physiologists
• 1984 National Science Foundation Young Presidential Investigator Award

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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