Gerard Agop Ateshian

Sen. Gerard A. Ateshian is a SEAS senator representing tenured faculty. He was an undergraduate student at Columbia (SEAS), from 1984 to 1986, and a graduate student until 1991, after which he assumed a faculty position in Mechanical Engineering. He served on the Senate as a non-tenured representative of SEAS faculty in the late 1990s. He is a faculty member in mechanical engineering and in biomedical engineering, and his research focuses on understanding mechanical factors in osteoarthritis, and assisting with the development of treatment methods for this degenerative joint disease.