Ian Hoffecker

Ian Hoffecker leads the Molecular Programming Group at the Department of Gene Technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SciLifeLab. He received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2009, and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He conducted his PhD studies as an international doctoral fellow at the Institute for Frontier Medical Science and Department of Polymer Chemistry at Kyoto University, Japan. After defending in 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher in DNA nanotechnology and DNA computing in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB) at Karolinska Institutet. In 2021 he established the Molecular Programming Group at KTH, SciLifeLab after receiving an ERC Starting Grant. His research is in the area of programmable matter, and sequencing-based technologies that translate concepts from classical computing and engineering to molecular contexts for life science applications. In 2024 he was awarded Docentship, and is currently the coordinator of a multi-national EIC Pathfinder consortium, scientific advisor to a Stockholm-based biotechnology startup, and is a member of the DNA Computing community and International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering ISNSCE. His work is supported by the European Union and the Swedish Research Council. More can be learned about his research here: https://hoffeckerlab.com/