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.
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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