Sefaattin Tongay

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Seth Tongay is the chair and professor of the materials science and engineering program at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at Arizona State University. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 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 discovery, synthesis, manufacturing, and applications of quantum materials and technologies. His team uses state-of-the-art manufacturing and characterization techniques to enable next-generation applications such as quantum information, energy conversion (catalysis, photovoltaics), and chemical engineering (desalination, purification, and gas separation). He has published more than 220 SCI-indexed research articles in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature, and others. He currently has an h-index of 64 and holds a number of 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 19) and more recently Nature Publishing Journal Nature 2D Materials and Applications.
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Recognition

2021 Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science Clarivate Analytics

2021 Lamonte H. Lawrence Professor in Solid State Science

2021 Teaching Excellence Award 

2021 Sigma Xi Full Member

2021 Fulton Impact Professorship Award 

2021 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)

2020 Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science Clarivate Analytics

2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Sciences and Engineering (PECASE)

2019 Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science Clarivate Analytics

2019 Top Outstanding Young Persons Award (TOYP) in Scientific Achievement 

2019 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)

2019 World Nobel Laureates Association -Young Scientists Winner

2018 Selected as Associate Editor at Applied Physics Reviews (Impact 13.4)

2018 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)

2017 Jewish National Funds Fellowship 

2017 Ira. A. Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor Award (ASU)

2017 NSF CAREER Award

2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award by Chemistry of Materials (impact factor:10)

2017 Top 5% Engineering Faculty Teaching Award (ASU)

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)