Arati Prabhakar appointed as the Science Advisor to US President, Joe Biden

Indian-origin physicist Arati Prabhakar is expected to be named as the scientific adviser to United States President Joe Biden this week. Biden is also expected to nominate Prabhakar as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP).

She succeeded Eric Lander. She would be the first woman and the first person of color to serve as science adviser to the President of the United States.

She also served in top roles during the presidential tenures of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. During the Clinton administration, she lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology.