Principle Investigator
Prof. Dr. Seth Ariel Tongay
Arizona State University, USA
Materials Science and Engineering,
Graduate Faculty, Department of Physics
Graduate Faculty, Department of Chemistry
Editorial Board Member of Nature 2D Materials & Applications
Editorial Board Member of Applied Physics Reviews (Impact factor 14.2)
Email: stongay_at_asu.edu
Biography. Sefaattin Tongay is an associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) within Materials Science and Engineering Department at Arizona State University. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he has completed his postdoctoral studies at University of California, Berkeley at the Materials Science and Engineering Department with Professor Junqiao Wu. He received his doctorate at the University of Florida in 2010 working with Distinguish Professor Arthur F. Hebard.
His work focuses on the synthesis and fundamental understanding of low-dimensional quantum materials. His team uses state-of-the art manufacturing and characterization techniques to enable next-generation applications such as quantum information, energy conversion (catalysis, photovoltaics), chemical engineering (desalination, purification, and gas separation). He has published more than 300 SCI-indexed research articles in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters. He currently has h-index of 75, and holds a number key patents on 2D materials. His work received wide media coverage from Nature publications, Scientific American, MIT news, Science Daily, Phys.org and various other media sources. Prof. Tongay also serves as an editorial member of AIP Applied Physics Review (impact factor 14) and more recently Nature Publishing Journal Nature 2D Materials and Applications.
Recognition
2019 Presidential Early Career Awards in Sciences and Engineering (PECASE) award
2018 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)
2017 Ira. A. Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor Award (ASU)
2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award by Chemistry of Materials (impact factor:10)
2017 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)
2016 Early Career Awards for Sciences and Engineering (CAREER) Award
2016 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)
2016 The Scientist of the Year Award by Turkish Science Foundation
2016 French National Institute Applied Sciences Researcher Award
2015 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)
2010 Tom Scott Memorial Award (Most innovative dissertation award at Florida)
2002 Summa Cum Laude (Top rank student award)
2002-2004 Bilkent University Broad of Directors Fellowship (Bilkent)
1998-2002 Presidential awards for distinguished undergraduate students (Aegean)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D Students
Master’s students
Undergraduate Students
Michael Durso (2017- )
Marta Soltyszewska (2017- )
Pranvera Gorenca (2017- )
Ruth Oliver (2018- )
ALUMNI
- Michael Durso (B.Sc in MSE) – Ph.D student at M.I.T (Congrats!)
- Cassie Brayfield – Ph.D student at University of California, Davis
- Katelyn Kline (M.Sc in Chemical Engineering) – Process Engineer at W. L. Gore & Associates
- Ying Qin (M.Sc in Biochemistry) – Ph.D student at Arizona State University (2017-2018)
- Kedi Wu (Ph.D in MSE) – R&D Engineer at Applied Materials (USA) (2014-2018)
- Bin Chen (Ph.D in MSE) – Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Toronto (2014-2018)
- Hui Cai (Ph.D in MSE) – Postdoctoral Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab USA (2014-2018)
- Sijie Yang (Ph.D In Chemistry) – Postdoc at Arizona State University (2015-2018)
- Ashutosh Agarwal (M.Sc in MSE) – Engineer Scientist at Applied Materials (2016-2018)
- Wilson Kong (M.Sc. in MSE) – Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University (2015-2017)
- Dr. Soumya S. Bhat (Postdoc) – Researcher Scientist at IKST Center India (2016-2017)
- Prof. Dr. Xiuqing Meng (Postdoc) – Professor at Chinese Academy of Science (2014-2016)
- Sarah Alamdari-Perez (B.Sc Chem Eng.) – Ph.D University of Washington (2014-2016)
- Anupum Pant (M.Sc in MSE) – Ph.D candidate at University of Washington (2015-2016)
- Xi Fan (M.Sc. in MSE) – Engineer Scientist at ON semiconductor Corp. (2015-2016)
- Eddie Vinciguerra (B.Sc Mech Eng.) – SpaceTREx Laboratories, Arizona, USA (2014-2016)
- Shane Larson (B.Sc Chem Eng.) – Product Ecology Engineer at Intel Corporation (2014-2015)
- Brett Gadberry (B.Sc MSE ) – Arizona State University (2014-2015)