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Tao E. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware (UD), part of the College of Arts & Sciences. He leads the T.E.L. Group, focusing on light-matter interactions using advanced theoretical and computational tools. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at Yale University (2021–2023) and completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (2021) under Prof. Joseph E. Subotnik. His undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Nanjing University included an Erasmus exchange at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Education includes a B.S. from Nanjing University's Kuang Yaming Honors School (2012–2016), a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (2016–2021), and postdoctoral research at Yale University (2021–2023). Awards include the AWS Cloud Credits for Research (2023), John G. Miller Fellowship (2020), and Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2015).
Research interests span computational polaritonics, nuclear quantum effects in complex environments, and integrating emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing into chemical physics. The T.E.L. Group develops tools such as nonadiabatic dynamics simulations and electronic structure theory to study molecular polaritons and energy transfer mechanisms.
- Grants & Funding: AWS Cloud Credits for Research (2023)
- Labs/Teams: Principal Investigator of the T.E.L. Group at UD Physics & Astronomy
Current advisees include Ph.D. students Xinwei Ji (2024) and Andres Felipe Bocanegra Vargas (2025), and undergraduate researcher Sofia Londoño Toro (2025). The group actively recruits graduate students and postdocs interested in theoretical chemical physics and polariton dynamics.
