Miguel García-Garibay

Miguel A. García-Garibay is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and the dean of physical sciences at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on solid state organic chemistry, photochemistry and spectroscopy, artificial molecular machines, and mesoscale phenomena.

Education García-Garibay received his B.S. from the University of Michoacán, Mexico, in 1982. After completing a combined degree in chemistry, Biology, and Pharmacy, García-Garibay went on to get a PhD degree in chemistry at the University of British Columbia, where he joined the group of John Scheffer. After that, he joined the group of Nicholas Turro as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.

García-Garibay received an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2015.

Awards and positions National Academy of Sciences, 2023 ACS Fellow, 2019 ACS Cope Scholar Award, 2015 Appointment to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the NAS Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, 2012–2018 Associate Editor of the Journal of the ACS, 2009–2016 NSF Creativity Award, 2009–2011 American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow, 2008 Fellow of the AAAS, 2007 Herbert Newby McCoy Award, UCLA, 1999 Dean's Marshal Award for the Division of Physical Sciences, UCLA, 1997 NSF Career Award 1996–99