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Postdoctoral  Scholar

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Professor Dave H. Tsai

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

Email: htsai7@buffalo.edu

Postdoc University of California, Berkeley (2022 - 2024)

Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey R. Long

R&D Engineer – First Solar, Inc. (2020 - 2022)

Postdoc – Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019 - 2020) 

J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Distinguished Postdoc Fellow

Ph.D. – Rice University​ (2018) 

Advisor: Prof. Pullickel 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, Material Research Society (2018) ​​

Graduate Students

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Rongbo Ji (he/him)

​Program:  Ph.D. in CBE (G1)

​M.S. in Chem. Eng., Columbia Univeristy (2023)

B.S in Chemistry, University of South California (2022)

Email: rongboji@buffalo.edu

Research:​ Hybrid Materials​ / Photovoltaics

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Mahdi Montazeri (he/him)

​Program:  Ph.D. in CBE (G1)
M.S. in Mater. Eng., Iran University of Science and Technology, 2024
​B.S. in Mater. and Metall. Eng., Iran University of Science and Technology, 2021
Email: mahdimon@buffalo.edu
Research:​ Hybrid Materials​ / Conducting MOF
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Cunyi Wei (he/him)

​Program:  M.S. in CBE (G2)
​B.S. in Chem Eng., Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 2024
Email: cunyiwei@buffalo.edu
Research:​ Hybrid Materials 
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Undergraduate Students

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Melina Toromani (she/her)

​Program:  B.S. in CBE (expected 2027)
​Email: melisato@buffalo.edu
Research:​ Conducting MOF
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This could be you!

Innovate, Collaborate, Discover — Grow With Us

We always looking for talented, motivated, creative and hard-working postdoc, graduate and undergrad students. â€‹

​Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (North Campus)

The State University of New York at Buffalo​

309 Furnas Hall (office)

242 Fronczak Hall (lab)

Buffalo, NY 14260

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htsai7(at)buffalo.edu

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