Comert completed his undergraduate studies at Bilkent University Department of Physics and his PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Program of Biophysics and Computational Biology. His interest in the endocytic processes dates back to his years at Harvard Medical School where he worked as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His broad research interests lie in the area of quantitative biology, ranging from cellular mechanics and high-resolution fluorescence live cell microscopy. Comert has recently received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.