In a recent collaborative study published in PNAS, Distinguished Research Professor Raphael Levine helped uncover how sunlight photodissociates  nitrogen molecules, offering new insights into the evolution of planetary atmospheres. Working […]

Professors Gerard Wong and Paul S. Weiss, together with Wong group postdoctoral researcher Dr. Calvin Lee and bioengineering Ph.D. student William Schmidt, are part of a research team that has […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members recently contributed to a new University of California report, Expanding Opportunity: Chemistry, Math, and the Future of STEM at UC. Based on systemwide data, published […]

In a recent Nature Catalysis paper, Professor Hannah Shafaat and collaborators at Ohio State University and at Berkeley and Brookhaven national labs report the first structural and spectroscopic characterization of […]

The Department is delighted to welcome Professor Giulia Palermo, a world-renowned computational biophysicist recognized for her pioneering computational studies of genome editing systems. She will join the UCLA faculty as […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss has been appointed to the inaugural editorial advisory board of RSC Applied Interfaces, a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In June 2025, […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Kalli Kappel as the Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair, effective retroactively to July 1, 2025. Established in 2005, the […]

Professor Justin Caram has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a member of the 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. He joins 22 other mid-career researchers […]