Ahmet Yıldız (born 1979 in Sakarya, Turkey) is an American Turkish academic.
He has contributed significantly to the understanding of transport within cells, in particular how motor proteins walk along filaments.
After postdoctoral work with Prof. Ron Vale at UCSF he joined the faculty of University of California, Berkeley in 2008.
The award was presented during the Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, October 10–12, 2003, in San Francisco.
Yildiz was awarded the 2005 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.