Faculty

Chris Thachuk is an Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research focuses on applying principles from computer science and engineering to create programmable matter at the nanoscale with bio-molecules such as DNA.

Prior to joining UW in August 2020, Thachuk was a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech, working with Erik Winfree, a postdoc at Oxford Computer Science with Marta Kwiatkowska and a James Martin Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Computing, Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UBC in 2013, advised by Anne Condon. Much of his computations now happen in a test tube.