Ido Bachelet

Ido Bachelet is an Israeli-Chilean scientist.

Education

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 Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His research on bio-inspired architecture was selected to represent Israel at the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Research Bachelet is known for his contribution to the fields of DNA origami, nanotechnology, and nanorobotics. His paper "A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads", lives in Boston and Israel. His cousin, Michelle Bachelet is the former two-term President of Chile.