Mehmet Aydeniz is a professor of STEM education (science) in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Aydeniz has a range of research interests related to the ways in which scientific knowledge is constructed, evaluated and validated, and a focused research agenda about student and teacher learning. His research efforts have focused on improving instructional quality both in K-12 and college science classrooms for ambitious and equitable teaching. This includes teacher self-efficacy to implement argumentation-pedagogy, teacher noticing, teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge for inquiry and modeling.