RPI has started hiring for its second constellation, the Biocomputation and Bionformatics Constellation. Angel E. Garcia will begin his appointment as senior constellation chair professor in biocomputation and bioinformatics on January 1, 2005.
Garcia currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and leads research in theoretical biology and biophysics. His group will conduct their research in the new Biotechnology Center.
According to President Shirley Ann Jackson, “[Garcia’s] interdisciplinary research is truly visionary, and will further enhance the emergent biotechnology programs at Rensselaer, placing us on the cutting edge of research in biocomputation and bioinformatics.”
