Douglas S. Clark (born 22 May 1957) is an American chemical engineer.
Clark earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Vermont in 1979, and graduated with a doctorate in chemical engineering from Caltech in 1983, where he was advised by James Edward Bailey. Clark joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1986,[1] where he later held the Gilbert Newton Lewis Professorship, and has served as editor in chief of the scientific journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering since 1996.[2] [3] In 2013, Clark was named dean of the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry.[4] He is also affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a chemical faculty engineer.[5]
In 1995, Clark was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.[6] The American Association for the Advancement of Science granted him an equivalent honor in 2003.[7] In 2014, Clark received the James E. Bailey Award for Biological Engineering from the Society for Biological Engineering, affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[8] Clark is a 2019 member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.[9]