Tim was born and raised between the Middle East and southern California. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of California, Riverside. Tim received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011 with Prof. Jean Fréchet. Tim obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 2016 as an NSF Graduate Fellow with Prof. Colin Nuckolls. Tim returned to UC Berkeley as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Chris Chang before starting his independent career in 2019. Research in the Su lab lies at the interface of silicon chemistry, atomically precise materials, and molecular electronics. His group's work has been supported by the Hellman Foundation, ACS PRF, AFOSR, NSF CAREER, and Cottrell Scholar awards. To learn more about Tim and his research group, see his author profile features in Angewandte Chemie and Trends in Chemistry.

Email: timothys@ucr.edu
Office: Chemical Sciences 424
Mailing Address: 501 W. Big Springs Rd, Riverside, CA 92507
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Assistant Professor in Chemistry – UC Riverside, Riverside, CA (July 2019 - Present)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow – UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2016 - 2019)
Advisor: Christopher J. Chang

B. S. in Chemistry – UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2011)
Advisor: Jean M. J. Fréchet

Cottrell Scholar Award (2024)

NSF CAREER Award (2024)

AFOSR DURIP Award (2023)

ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award (2021)

Hellman Fellow (2021)

RSC Emerging Investigator, Journal of Materials Chemistry (2021)

UC Regents Faculty Fellowship (2020)

NIH F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (2017)

Louis Hammett Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, Columbia Chemistry (2016)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2013)

Traube Fellowship, Columbia Chemistry (2012)