FOCUS SPEAKER:
Miguel Garcia-Garibay
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 About
Miguel Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay received his B.S. degree there in
1982 from the University of Michoacan in Mexico. He obtained
his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University
of British Columbia in 1988 and was a postdoctoral Fellow
at Columbia before joining the faculty at UCLA in 1992. Dr.
Garcia-Garibay was promoted to full professor in the year
2000 and he served as Vice Chair for Education in the Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry from 2005 to 2008. He is also
a member of the California NanoSystems Institute. During his
career, Prof. Garcia-Garibay has achieved international reputation
for his work in solid-state organic chemistry, photochemistry
and spectroscopy, solid state reaction mechanisms, dynamics
in crystals, dipolar lattices and molecular machines. His
current research efforts are aimed at the development of chemical
process that occur with sunlight, without harmful additives
and with no solvents. Prof. Garcia-Garibay has written extensively,
authoring or co-authoring over 130 articles published in peer-reviewed
Journals, and 9 book chapters. He has also given over 160
invited lectures. He in Associate Editor of the prestigious
Journal of the American Chemical Society and he serves in
the advisory boards of the Journal of Organic Chemistry and
the Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society. Among other honors,
he is a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement
of Science, and he was recently awarded an American Competitiveness
and Innovation Fellowship and an NSF Creativity Award.
More about Miguel Garcia-Garibay:
UCLA
Profile Page
Miguel
Garcia-Garibay's Home Page
Garcia-Garibay
Research Group
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