Prof. Dr. David Tilley

EDUCATION

Ph.D.  – University of California, Berkeley

Undergraduate – University of Georgia

BACKGROUND

Following a first postdoctoral stay at Princeton University, David Tilley moved to Switzerland to learn about water splitting with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL. Following this postdoctoral fellowship, he served as Group Leader for the water splitting subgroup in the Grätzel laboratory from 2011-2014. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Zurich (UZH) in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. In August 2024, he became director of the Department of Chemistry at UZH.

CONTACT

Post-doctoral Associates

Research Associate

Dr. Thomas Moehl

Education

Ph.D. – Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Postdoc – EPFL, Switzerland

Contact

thomas.moehl@chem.uzh.ch

Post-doctoral Associate

Dr. Enrico Lepre

Education

Ph.D. – Materials Science, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Postdoc – hte (the high throughput experimentation company), Germany

Contact

enrico.lepre@chem.uzh.ch

Post-doctoral Associate

Dr. Jan Bühler

Education

Masters – Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ph.D. – Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

jan.buehler@chem.uzh.ch

Post-doctoral Associate

Dr. Pardis Adams

Education

Masters – Chemistry, Imperial College, London, UK
Ph.D. – Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

pardis.adams@chem.uzh.ch

Post-doctoral Associate

Dr. Sanghyun Bae

Education

Integrated MSc.-Ph.D. Program – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Contact

sanghyun.bae@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Students

Ph.D. Student

David Yong

Education

Masters – Materials Science and Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Contact

david.yongsam@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

Işık Tunçay

Education

Masters – Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

isik.tuncay@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

Ngoc Minh Huong Le

Education

Masters – Nanomaterials, Imperial College London, UK

Contact

hailey.le@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

Ramon Schnyder

Education

Masters – Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland

Contact

ramon.schnyder@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

Sarah Jäggi

Education

Masters – Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contact

sarahisabella.jaeggi@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

Yongping Gan

Education

Masters – Materials and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy and Sciences, China

Contact

yongping.gan@chem.uzh.ch

Ph.D. Student

ZiYing Zhang

Education

Masters – Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Contact

ziying.zhang@chem.uzh.ch

MSc. Students

MSc. Student

Hao Wu

Education

Bachelors – Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Contact

hao.wu2@uzh.ch

Laboratory Technician

Laboratory Technician

Laura Eberhard

Education

Contact

laura.eberhard@chem.uzh.ch

Alumni

Post-doctoral Associates

Dr. Laxman Gouda
Dr. Magdalena Marszałek
Dr. Wenzhe Niu
Dr. Rajiv Prabhakar
Dr. Helena Roithmeyer
Dr. Wilma Septina
Dr. Laurent Sévery
Dr. Nicola Weder
Dr. Wooseok Yang

Ph.D. Students

Pardis Adams  Thesis
Jan Bühler
Wei Cui  Thesis
Rajiv Prabhakar  Thesis
Erin Service  Thesis
Laurent Sévery  Thesis
Jihye Suh  Thesis
Zhenbin WangThesis
René Wick-Joliat  Thesis
Xi Zhang  Thesis

MSc. Students

Casey Beall
Bernhard Fenner
Connor Firth
Noah Jarju
Dhananjeya Kumaar
Alissa Muntwyler
Samuel Naselli
Marin Nikolic
Jonas Zurflüh