Faculty

Jeff Nivala is a Research Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He works closely with other faculty, students, and scientists as co-director of the Molecular Information Systems Lab. His scientific interests are focused on technology development for applications in molecular data storage and interfaces, synthetic biology, genomics, and proteomics.

Nivala has received the NSF CAREER Award (2023) and was recognized by Forbes Magazine as a “30 Under 30” in science (2017). His post-doctoral work was performed in George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School. He was a graduate student fellow of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) as a Ph.D. student in the UCSC Nanopore Group with Mark Akeson, and a Washington Research Foundation Fellow in David Baker’s lab during his undergraduate work.