Erdem Karatekin

Appointments: 2022- Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University (secondary appointment in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry) 2018-22 Associate Professor on term, Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University (secondary appointment in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry) 2012-18 Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, Yale University (secondary appointment in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry) 2008-11 Visiting Research Scientist, Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Yale University (on leave from CNRS). With James E. Rothman. 2003- CNRS Chargé de Recherche, Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences (SPPIN), CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Descartes, Paris. 2000-02 Post-doctoral Research Associate. Laboratoire “Physico-Chimie Curie”, Institut Curie, Paris, France. With Françoise Brochard-Wyart (“Soft Interfaces”) and Jean-Louis Viovy (“Macromolecules and Microsystems in Biology and Medicine”). 1995-99 Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University, Department of Chemistry, New York, USA. 1994-96 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, Department of Chemistry. Education 1999 Ph.D., with Distinction (Chemistry). Columbia University, New York. Supervisors: Professor Nicholas J. Turro (Chemistry) and Professor Ben O'Shaughnessy (Chemical Engineering). Thesis: “Dynamics of Free Radical Polymerization.” 1998 M. Phil. (Chemistry). Columbia University, New York. 1996 M. S. (Chemistry). Columbia University, New York. 1994 B. S., with Highest Honors (Chemical Engineering, minor in Physics). University of Louisville, Kentucky.