Miguel García-Garibay
Dean of Physical Sciences
310-825-3159
mgg@chem.ucla.edu
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay received his B.S. degree from the University of Michoacan in Mexico and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University before joining the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, where he rose through the faculty ranks and is now a Distinguished Professor.
After serving as Vice Chair for Education and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in 2016 he was appointed Dean of Physical Sciences in the UCLA College. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, and Crystal Growth & Design, and was an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2009 to 2018. He served two terms on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academies and is now a member of the Advisory Committee of the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.
Garcia-Garibay has achieved an international reputation for work in reactive intermediates, solid-state organic chemistry, photochemistry, and crystalline molecular machines. He has authored more than 230 articles and delivered more than 450 lectures worldwide. His honors include an NSF Creativity Award, the 2013 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award, the 2015 ACS Cope Scholar Award, the 2016 UCLA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award, the 2020 Japanese Photochemical Association Honda-Fujishima Award, and the 2025 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry. He is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Chemical Society and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, the Mexican Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member in 2021, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.