Chris Voigt

Voigt is the Daniel I.C. Wang Professor of Advanced Biotechnology in theDepartment of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy(MIT). He works in the developing field of synthetic biology. He is theCo-Director of the Synthetic Biology Center at MIT and the Co-Founder of theMIT-Broad Foundry. His research interests focus on the programming of cells toperform coordinated and complex tasks for applications in medicine,agriculture, and industry. Prof. Voigt obtained his Bachelor’s degree inChemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a PhD inBiochemistry and Biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. Hecontinued his postdoctoral research in Bioengineering at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. His academic career commenced as an Assistant andAssociate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at theUniversity of California-San Francisco. Chris Voigt joined the Department ofBiological Engineering at MIT as Associate Professor in 2011.