Galen Stucky

Khashoggi Chair in Materials Chemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Prof. Stucky is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the National Academy of Inventors, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has received many awards including Avelino Corma and Mark E. Davis and the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He is one of the most influential materials chemist in the world, with 800+ publications and 30+ patents. In Prof. Stucky's current research, the overall goal is the design and synthesis of new materials with an emphasis on understanding interface and nucleation chemistry and creating multifunctional 3-D systems by cooperative molecular assembly. The work demonstrates how complex composite materials can be synthesized and selectively converted into desired morphologies for applications in optics, catalysis, energy storage, energy conversion, and separation. He has also carried out in vivo studies on biomineralization, the concepts of which he is currently applying to the synthesis of multifunctional, nanostructured materials and their interaction with biosystems.