Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier

In 2015, Time magazine designated Charpentier as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. Prof. Charpentier has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing (through CRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.

Charpentier's awards have also included the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Gruber Foundation International Prize in Genetics, the Leibniz Prize, the Tang Prize, the Japan Prize, and the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. She has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award jointly with Jennifer Doudna and Francisco Mojica.