David Tilley received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Georgia, USA. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Matthew Francis. Afterwards, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Erik Sorensen at Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher (2007-2009) before moving to Switzerland to learn about water splitting as an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of 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 in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.