Domitilla Del Vecchio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Domitilla Del Vecchio is an Italian control theorist, whose research connects control theory to systems biology, synthetic biology, synthetic biological circuits, and regenerative medicine. She has also studied self-organization in traffic control.[1][2] She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center.
Del Vecchio's father was a Roman engineer and her mother was a businesswoman.[2] She earned a laurea at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1999, and completed a PhD in control theory and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2005.[3]
She became an assistant professor of electrical and engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan in 2006, also affiliated there with the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. She moved to her present position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.[3]
Book
Del Vecchio is coauthor of the book Biomolecular Feedback Systems (with Richard M. Murray, Princeton University Press, 2014).[4]
