About Dave H. Tsai

​Assistant Professor: The State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) (Jan. 2025)

Postdoc – University of California, Berkeley (2024)

Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey R. Long

R&D Engineer – First Solar, Inc. (2022)

Postdoc – Los Alamos National Laboratory (2020) 

J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Distinguished Postdoc Fellow

Ph.D. – Rice University​ (2018) 

Advisor: Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan and Prof. Jun Lou

M.S. – National Taipei University of Technology (2010)

B.S. – Fu Jen Catholic University ​(2006)

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Awards and Honors:

• R&D 100 award –­ Solution-processed Perovskite Crystalline Films (SPeC) (2023)

• Rising Star of Science Award, Research.com (2022)

• Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate (2021)

• Supernova Silver Award, First Solar (2021)

• Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, Argonne National Laboratory (2020)

• J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)

• MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society (2018) ​​

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Professional Service:

• Early Career Advisory Board: Material Today Energy (2026 - present)