Carlos Castro
Contact Information
Job Title
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- castro.39@osu.edu
- Phone
- 614-292-2662
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Areas of Expertise
- DNA Nanotechnology
- Single Molecule Biophysics
- Molecular and Cellular Mechanics
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
Research Description
Research interests include:
- Utilize engineering approaches combined with nanotechnology and biophysics experimental tools
- Characterize and model the physical properties and behaviors of complex biological systems
- Goal to establish an array of functional DNA nanotechnology-based tools
- Goal to reverse engineer the design of biological systems that exhibit remarkable mechanical properties
Mentored Biophysics Students
- Yin Wei
- Diana Lopez
- Joshua Johnson
- Jenny Le