Georg Seelig

Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Georg Seelig will join the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering in 2009. Seelig will be part of the Experimental Computer Engineering Lab (ExCEL). ExCEL is an exciting new entity that encourages and facilitates broad collaboration between the departments along the computer engineering boundary.

Seelig comes to us from the California Institute of Technology’s Natural Computation Group where he is a postdoctoral researcher. At Caltech their research investigates how synthetic biochemical systems can be designed to carry out algorithms and compute. In this research, Seelig has developed DNA-based catalytic amplifiers and logic gates, demonstrating that DNA-based components can be modularly linked into multi-layered logic circuits that embody the main features of digital logic.

Seelig holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Geneva. Recently, he received a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award at the Scientific Interface.

See Georg Seelig's Seelig Lab Web site.