Ido Bachelet


Ido Bachelet is an Israeli scientist.

Education

Dr. Bachelet earned his Ph.D. in medical sciences from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and did two postdoctoral fellowships, engineering at M.I.T. and biologically-inspired engineering at the George Church lab at Harvard University. His fields of expertise include DNA origami, synthetic biology, and biomimetics. He taught life sciences at Bar-Ilan University and industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His research on the bio-inspired architecture was selected to represent Israel at the 16th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. Bachelet is a pianist and composer, writing music for piano that is inspired by biological processes. Bachelet is the founder of several companies, such as the computer vision company Sight Diagnostics .

Research

Bachelet is known for his contribution to the fields of DNA origami, Nanotechnology, and Nanorobotics. His well cited paper "A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads", which deals with nanoscale robots being able to kill cancer cells, created an important interface between the field of DNA origami and medicine.

Personal life

Bachelet lives in Tel-Aviv. He is first cousin of the president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.