Walter Fontana studied chemistry in Vienna, finishing with a doctoral thesis based on a numerical analysis of the intrinsic folding characteristics of RNA. He continued his research at Los Alamos and the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, where he developed a keen interest in computer science as a prism for understanding biology. He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton in the theoretical biology program, then joined the systems biology department at Harvard Medical School.
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Walter Fontana
Visiting Professor, Collège de France
