Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is an adjunct associate professor of bioengineering. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and completed postdoctoral research in synthetic biology and DNA nanotechnology at Caltech. Seelig received a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2008, an NSF Career Award in 2010, a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011, a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012, and an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2014.