Miguel A. García-Garibay received his B.S. degree from the University of Michoacan, Mexico and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia with Professor John Scheffer. After his time as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, where he is now Distinguished Professor. After various leadership positions, he was appointed Dean of Physical Sciences and Senior Dean of the UCLA College. He has served in editorial boards of several American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry journals and was an associate editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society. García-Garibay achieved international reputation for work in reactive intermediates, solid-state chemistry, photochemistry, and for the development of amphidynamic crystals as a platform for molecular machines. He has authored over 250 articles and delivered over 350 lectures across the globe. Among other honors, he received the Inter-American Photochemical Society Award, the ACS Cope Scholar Award, and the 2025 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry. He was elected fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, fellow of the American Chemical Society, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and in 2023, he was elected to the USA National Academy of Sciences.
