Jessica Green

Jessica L. Green
Green in 2014
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (BS 1992) University of California, Berkeley (MS 1995, PhD 2001)
Known for	TED Talks
Scientific career
Fields	Genomics Microbiology Microbial Ecology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Merced University of Oregon

Jessica Green is an American engineer, ecologist, and entrepreneur whose research focuses on Microbial Ecology and Genomics. She is an Alec and Kay Keith Professor^[1] at the University of Oregon, where she is founding director of the Biology and Built Environment Center,^[2] and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.^[3] Green co-founded Phylagen Inc.^[4] in 2015 with Harrison Dillon, the founder of Solazyme.

Green’s two talks at the TED Conferences on the Microbiome of the Built Environment^[5][6] have received over 1.5 million views.

Education[]

Green received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and a Master of Science in civil and environmental engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in civil and environmental engineering, magna cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[]

Green was awarded a TED Fellowship in 2010 and a TED Senior Fellowship in 2011.^[7] In 2013 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship^[8] for work on a science fiction graphic novel about the Human Microbiome.^[9] In 2013 Green was awarded a Blaise Pascal International Research Chair

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• University homepage
• Jessica Green on Twitter
• Jessica Green at TED