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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Erik Winfree
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age |1969|09|26}}
| nationality       = American
| fields            = Computer science<br> Bioengineering
| workplaces        = [[Organization:California Institute of Technology|California Institute of Technology]]
| alma_mater        = [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]<br />[[Organization:California Institute of Technology|California Institute of Technology]]
}}

'''Erik Winfree''' (born September 26, 1969<ref>[http://www.dna.caltech.edu/~winfree/Postscript/resume-short.pdf Erik Winfree resume]</ref>) is an American applied computer scientist, bioengineer, and professor at [[Organization:California Institute of Technology|California Institute of Technology]].<ref>[http://www.dna.caltech.edu/~winfree/ Erik Winfree's homepage]</ref>  He is a leading researcher into [[Biology:DNA computing|DNA computing]] and DNA nanotechnology.<ref name="Pelesko"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://istcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/spring2003/speakers/winfree.html |title="Biomolecular Computing" colloquium abstract |access-date=2010-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108044126/https://istcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/spring2003/speakers/winfree.html |archive-date=2017-01-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?TRID=517 Technology Review's 1999 TR35]</ref>

In 1998, Winfree in collaboration with Nadrian Seeman published the creation of two-dimensional lattices of DNA tiles using the "double crossover" [[Biology:Structural motif|motif]]. These tile-based structures provided the capability to implement DNA computing, which was demonstrated by Winfree and Paul Rothemund in 2004, and for which they shared the 2006 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.<!--
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--><ref name="Seeman-sciam">{{cite journal |last=Seeman |first=Nadrian C. |title=Nanotechnology and the double helix |journal=Scientific American |date=June 2004 |pages=64–75 |pmid=15195395 |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nanotechnology-and-the-do |volume=290 |issue=6 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0604-64|bibcode=2004SciAm.290f..64S }}</ref>

In 1999, he was named to the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=1999 |title=1999 Young Innovators Under 35 |publisher=Technology Review | year=1999 | accessdate=August 15, 2011}}</ref>

He graduated from the [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]] with a BS, and from the Computation and Neural Systems program at the [[Organization:California Institute of Technology|California Institute of Technology]] with a PhD, where he studied with [[Biography:John Hopfield|John Hopfield]] and Al Barr.<ref>[http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cspeople/faculty/winfree_e.html Erik Winfree's bio at Caltech Department of Computer Science] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608095356/http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cspeople/faculty/winfree_e.html |date=June 8, 2010 }}</ref>
He was a Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]].<ref>[http://iic.harvard.edu/user/erik-winfree Erik Winfree bio at Harvard]</ref>  He was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. His father [[Biography:Arthur Winfree|Arthur Winfree]], a theoretical biologist, was also a MacArthur Fellow.

==Works==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=j6UdSyjkmtoC&q=Erik+Winfree ''DNA Based Computers V: Dimacs Workshop DNA Based Computers V June 14–15, 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology''], Editors Erik Winfree, David K. Gifford, AMS Bookstore, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-8218-2053-7}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=XBwv3BlGVK0C&q=Erik+Winfree ''Evolution as computation: DIMACS workshop, Princeton, January 1999''], Editors Laura Faye Landweber, Erik Winfree, Springer, 2002, {{ISBN|978-3-540-66709-4}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=6YXwlrk7x_IC&dq=Erik+Winfree&pg=PA105 "DNA Computing by Self-Assembly"], ''Ninth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering'', National Academies Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-309-09139-8}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=abPQ67fmayUC&q=Erik+Winfree ''Algorithmic Bioprocesses''], Editors [[Biography:Anne Condon|Anne Condon]], David Harel, Joost N. Kok, Arto Salomaa, Erik Winfree, Springer, 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-540-88868-0}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{MathGenealogy|id=110493}}
*[http://en.scientificcommons.org/erik_winfree "Erik Winfree"], ''Scientific Commons''
*[http://membercentral.aaas.org/blogs/member-spotlight/erik-winfree-studies-computational-components-dna AAAS Member Spotlight: Erik Winfree studies the computational components of DNA]


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