Carlos Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University and a faculty member of the OSU Biophysics Graduate Program. His research focuses on the self-assembly of DNA nanodevices for biophysical and biomedical applications.

Castro received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering both from the Ohio State University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was post-doctoral fellow at the Technische Universität München working in structural DNA nanotechnology.