| Doctoral era | Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Texas A&M University (Dorothy Shippen lab) | College Station, Texas | Technical formation / research depth | Columbia University profile |
| Postdoc era | Postdoctoral research at National Institutes of Health (Kiyoshi Mizuuchi lab) | Bethesda, Maryland | Pre-faculty research chapter | Columbia University profile |
| Faculty appointment | Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University | New York, New York | Faculty origin / Greene Lab establishment | Columbia University profiles |
| 2000s-2010s | DNA curtains technique development | New York, New York | Technical innovation / single-molecule imaging | Wikipedia DNA curtain entry, JoVE publication |
| 2012 | Single-stranded DNA curtains publication | New York, New York | Methodological advancement | Scientific publications |
| 2014 | CRISPR-Cas9 DNA interrogation publication | New York, New York | High-impact research (1100+ citations) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24476820/ |
| 2015 | Base triplet stepping by Rad51/RecA family | New York, New York | DNA recombination mechanisms | Science publication |
| 2010s-present | RAD51 paralogs and homologous recombination research | New York, New York | Sustained research program | Research.com profile, multiple publications |
| Present | Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center member | New York, New York | Cancer biology research connections | http://www.cancer.columbia.edu/profile/eric-c-greene-phd |
| Present | Greene Lab ongoing research program | New York, New York | Current research direction | http://www.thegreenelab.com |