美国科学院院士、英国皇家学会院士、美国科学院两任院长、《科学》周刊主编。Bruce Alberts began service as editor-in-chief of Science on March 1, 2008. Alberts is also a professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, a position he returned to in 2005, after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C.