Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier(French pronunciation:[emanɥɛlmaʁiʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher inmicrobiology,genetics, andbiochemistry.She has served as a director at theMax Planck Institute for Infection BiologyinBerlinsince 2015. Three years later, she founded an independentresearch institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens.In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemistJennifer Doudnaof theUniversity of California, Berkeley, were awarded theNobel Prize in Chemistry"for the development of a method forgenome editing" (throughCRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only. Fields: Microbiology, Genetics, Biochemistry Education: Pierre and Marie Curie University BSc MSc PhD