Paul Rothemund Biography

Paul Rothemund is a senior research associate at the Computation, and Neural Systems department at Caltech. Wwell-known for his pioneering work with DNA origami, and within the DNA nanotechnology, and synthetic biology fields. For his work in creating DNA nanotubes algorithmic molecular self-assembly of DNA tile structures, and on DNA computing, Paul with a coliege were awarded at the 2006 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. Paul graduated from Laconia High School New Hampshire, was the team captain of the championship Laconia team for the television quiz show Granite State Challenge, and after graduating this technology speaker was a resident of Ricketts House. Paul obtained Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2001 and is a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship . In his technique to manipulate, and fold strands of DNA known as DNA origami, Paul hopes that self-assembly techniques could be “used to create a programming language for molecules just as we have programming languages for computers." His work on large-scale sculptures of his DNA origami was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2008.

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