Education
California Institute of Technology. University of Chicago.
California Institute of Technology. University of Chicago.
He is a leading researcher into deoxyribonucleic acid computing and deoxyribonucleic acid nanotechnology. In 1998, Winfree in collaboration with Nadrian Seeman published the creation of two-dimensional lattices of deoxyribonucleic acid tiles using the "double crossover" motif. In 1999, he was named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Science, and from the Computation and Neural Systems program at the California Institute of Technology with a Doctor of Philosophy, where he studied with John Hopfield and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Barrister
He was a Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.
His father Arthur Winfree, a theoretical biologist, was also a MacArthur Fellow.