Professional Appointments

• Assistant Professor (Jan. 2024 – Current)

       Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware

• Postdoctoral Associate (Aug. 2021 – Dec. 2023)

       Department of Chemistry, Yale University 

       Advisor: Sharon Hammes–Schiffer

Education

• University of Pennsylvania (June 2016 – July 2021)

       Ph.D., Department of Chemistry

       Advisor: Joseph E. Subotnik

• Uppsala University (Aug. 2015 – Jan. 2016)

       Erasmus Exchange Student

• Nanjing University (Sept. 2012 – June 2016)

       B.S., Kuang Yaming Honors School

       Advisor: Shuhua Li

Selected Fellowships and Awards

• AWS Cloud Credits for Research at Yale (Apr. 2023)

• John G. Miller Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (May 2020)

• VIEST Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (Sept. 2019)

• Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Scholarship, Uppsala University (Apr. 2015)

• First Prize of Elite Program Scholarship, Nanjing University (2014–2015)

Mini-Biography

Tao received his B.S. in Chemistry at Nanjing University, China in 2016. In the Undergrad, Tao also spent half a year in Sweden as an Erasmus exchange student. Then, Tao moved to U.S. and completed his Ph.D. study in the Joe Subotnik group at University of Pennsylvania in 2021. During his Ph.D., Tao's research interests focused on developing novel analytical and numerical approaches to study both weak and strong light-matter interactions. After Ph.D., Tao became a postdoc researcher working with Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer at Yale University. During the postdoc, Tao studied nuclear quantum effects via multicomponent electronic structure theory.

In Jan 2024, Tao joined in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor.

Apart from research, Tao is also a big fan of hiking and Zelda games.