Ahmet yildiz biography

American Turkish academic (born )

This article is about the American Turkish academic. For the murder, see Murder of Ahmet Yıldız.

Ahmet Yıldız (born in Sakarya, Turkey) is an American Turkish academic.

He is currently a professor of physics and molecular cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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He has contributed significantly to the understanding of transport within cells, in particular how motor proteins walk along filaments.

He received a B.S. in physics from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, in , followed by a Ph.D.

from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in After postdoctoral work with Prof. Ron Vale at UCSF he joined the faculty of University of California, Berkeley in

In Yildiz received the Foresight Distinguished Student Award for his study of the motion of the molecular motor myosin V.

According to the Foresight Institute: "The Distinguished Student Award recognizes the college graduate or undergraduate student