Massimiliano Di Ventra

Massimiliano is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a world-renowned theorist in condensed matter physics. He was the first to propose and support the sequencing by tunneling concept, a core idea behind both the FIRST Project and Quantum Biosystems. His team at the University of California has theoretically shown the feasibility of this fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through nanopores. He was awarded his doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne).