Ido Bachelet

Member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Nano-Center at Bar-Ilan University, and teaches industrial design at Bezalel Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology and experimental therapeutics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, did his first post-doctoral research in mechanical engineering at MIT., and a second post-doctoral research in synthetic biology at Harvard University, where his research started the field of medical nanorobotics. Dr. Bachelet leads the multidisciplinary lab of bionics and bio-design at BIU, developing and studying diverse technologies including medical nanorobotics, unconventional computing, programmable objects, and human-machine interfaces. He started several companies in the U.S. and Israel in the fields of infectious diseases, computer vision, and nanotechnology, and his research is supported by grants from the European Research Council, Israeli Chief Scientist and other U.S. and European foundations. He is also a pianist, and composes music where living cells and molecules take active parts. His CD of music for piano and microscope is coming soon.

Ido Bachelet