Arthur R. Grossman

Arthur Grossman received his BS at Brooklyn College, his PhD at Indiana University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University. He has been a Staff Scientist at The Carnegie Institution since 1982 and is currently a courtesy Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He has performed research across fields ranging from plant biology, microbiology, genomics, and photosynthesis and initiated large scale algal genomics by guiding the Chlamydomonas genome project (1998). He has mentored more than 15 PhD students and 40 post-doctoral fellows (most are successful, independent scientists). In 2002 he received the Darbaker Prize (Botanical Society of America) for work on microalgae, in 2009 the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal (NAS) for work on marine and freshwater algae and in 2024 the ASPB Lawrence Bogorad Prize for excellence in plant biology. He presented the Arnon endowed lecture on photosynthesis in Berkeley in 2017, has given numerous plenary lectures and received several fellowships throughout his career, including Visiting Scientist Fellowship – Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy, 2014), the Lady Davis Fellowship (Israel, 2011) and the Chaire Edmond de Rothschild (Paris in 2017-2018). He has been Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Phycology and served on the editorial boards of many well-respected journals including the Annu Rev Genetics, Plant Physiol, J Biol Chem, Mol Plant, and Curr Genetics. He has also served in a scientific advisory capacity for both nonprofit and for-profit companies.