Domitilla Del Vecchio

Bio

Domitilla Del Vecchio received her Ph. D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (Automation) from the University of Rome at Tor Vergata in 2005 and 1999, respectively. From 2006 to 2010, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2010, she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is currently the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering. She was awarded a 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, she is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (2022), an IEEE Fellow (2021), a recipient of the Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), the 2016 Bose Research Award (MIT), the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council (2010), the NSF Career Award (2007), the American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award (2004), and the Bank of Italy Fellowship (2000). Her research focuses on developing modeling and biological engineering techniques to understand and control the behavior of genetic circuits in bacterial and mammalian cells. Her lab is particularly interested in applications to biosensing, biomanufacturing, and regenerative medicine.