Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)

Carlos José Bustamante (born 1951 in

Carlos Bustamante is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator,^[2] professor of molecular and cell biology, physics, and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley,^[3] and Biophysicist Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.^[4]
Bustamante studied medicine at

• Research assistant, UC Berkeley (1976–1981)
• Postdoctoral fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC Berkeley (1981–1982)
• Assistant professor, department of chemistry, University of New Mexico (1982–1986)
• Associate professor, department of chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986–1989)
• Professor of chemistry, department of chemistry, University of New Mexico (1989–1990)
• Professor of chemistry and member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon (1991–1998)
• Professor in molecular and cell biology, chemistry, and physics, UC Berkeley (1998–present)
• Honorary professor, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Fellowships and awards

• Kellogg Foundation scholarship during the Master in Biochemistry (1973–1975)
• Fulbright Commission and Institute of International Education
  Fellow (1975–1976)
• Abraham Rosenberg scholarship, UC Berkeley (1975–1976)
• Searle Scholar
  (1984)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1985)
• Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986)
• State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1994–1998, 2000–present)
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995), Citation: For pioneering the application of optical methods and scanning probes in measurements of the properties of single DNA molecules.^[5]
• Member of the science advisory board of the Searle Scholars Program (1997–2000)
• Member of the board of trustees at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute
• Elected member, National Academy of Sciences, Biophysics 2002
• Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics (2002)^[6]
• Hans Neurath Award of the Protein Society (2004)
• In 2005 he received the Richtmyer Memorial Award given annually by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
• Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics (2004)^[7]
• Doctor Honoris Causa of National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru^[8]
• Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science (2012)^[9]
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences (2012)