Dr. Ayse Asatekin is an assistant professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Tufts University. Her research group focuses on developing novel membranes for clean water and energy-efficient separations. She is also interested in multi-functional membranes, controlling surface chemistry for biomedical applications, polymer science, and energy storage. She completed B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She then received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Program in Polymer Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining the faculty at Tufts, she worked at Clean Membranes, Inc., a start-up she co-founded to commercialize fouling resistant membranes she developed during her doctoral work. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Massachusetts Clean Energy Council's Catalyst Award, and the Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Young Scholar Award. She was named the John A. and Dorothy M. Adams Faculty Development Professor in 2016. She is also a scientific advisor to ZwitterCo, a start-up currently commercializing novel membrane technologies developed in her lab.