Domitilla Del Vecchio

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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.

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Education and career

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]

Recognition

Del Vecchio was the 2010 winner of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, "for contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology". [5] She was named to the 2021 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to circuit engineering in synthetic biology". [6] She is also a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control. [7]

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References

  1. "People in control - Traffic and Weather", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 27 (3): 14–18, June 2007, doi:10.1109/mcs.2007.364998, S2CID   44439923
  2. 1 2 Chandler, David L. (9 March 2015), "Domitilla Del Vecchio bridges math, engineering, and biology: Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological circuits", MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2022-08-15
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  4. Bien, Harold; Balázsi, Gábor (June 2016), "Review of Biomolecular Feedback Systems", The Quarterly Review of Biology, 91 (2): 220–221, doi:10.1086/686847, JSTOR   26553521
  5. Domitilla Del Vecchio receives Donald P. Eckman Award, University of Michigan Electrical & Computer Engineering, 12 April 2010, retrieved 2022-08-15
  6. Ryan, Dorothy (8 January 2021), "Four from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021", MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2022-08-15
  7. IFAC Fellows, International Federation of Automatic Control, retrieved 2022-08-15