Ayse Asatekin is a professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Tufts University, and Steve and Kristen Remondi Faculty Fellow. She received bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She went on to receive her Ph.D. through the Program in Polymer Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She completed her post-doctoral work with Prof. Karen K. Gleason, also at MIT. She co-founded Clean Membranes, Inc., a start-up company that commercialized a membrane technology that she began developing during her doctoral research, and worked as its Principal Scientist before joining the Tufts faculty in 2012. Novel zwitterionic membrane technologies developed in her lab are currently commercialized by ZwitterCo, Inc., where she serves as the Senior Scientific Advisor. She is a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Massachusetts Clean Energy Council's Catalyst Award, the 2023 Tufts University Rising Innovator of the Year Award, and North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Permeance Prize. Her research interests are in developing novel membranes for clean water and energy-efficient separations through polymer self-assembly. She is also interested in multi-functional membranes, controlling surface chemistry for biomedical applications, polymer science, and energy storage.