Damien Woods
Scholar

Damien Woods

Google Scholar ID: tL0fWrsAAAAJ
Professor at the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth University
molecular programmingmodels of computationoptical computingsmall universal Turing machines
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,546
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
21
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
37
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers, including one in Nature on reprogrammable DNA self-assembly, and papers on theoretical molecular robotics, Collatz process, and theoretical tile-assembly. Involved in several research projects such as EIC's DISCO, SFI's Active DNA tiles, and ERC's Active-DNA. Received funding from Science Foundation Ireland.
Research Experience
  • Led a research group at Inria (2016-2018), was a Senior Research Fellow at Caltech (2009-2016) working with Erik Winfree and Shuki Bruck, and held postdoc positions at the University of Seville, University College Cork, and the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics.
Education
  • PhD from the Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University.
Background
  • A scientist and professor, with research interests including molecular computers, DNA nanostructures, algorithm prediction, self-assembly, optical computing, computational complexity, etc.
Miscellany
  • Leads a research team at the Hamilton Institute and the Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University.