Luis M. Campos

Biography

Luis M. Campos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was born on this planet, just like you. Luis grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, and moved at the age of eleven to Los Angeles, California. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from CSU Dominguez Hills in 2001, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA in 2006 working under the supervision of M. A. Garcia-Garibay and K. N. Houk. At UCLA, he was awarded the NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, and the Saul & Silvia Winstein Award for his graduate research in solid-state photochemistry. Switching to materials chemistry, he went to UCSB as a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow to work under the supervision of C. J. Hawker at the Materials Research Laboratory. At Columbia, his group’s research interests lie in physical macromolecular chemistry. To date, he has co-authored over 100 articles and 13 patents; and he has received various awards, including the PECASE, ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, and the I-APS Young Faculty Award, among others. In addition to these research accolades, Luis has been recognized for his pedagogical contributions by the Cottrell Scholar Award, Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Appointments

2016-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY

2011-2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY

2006-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Education

2006 Ph.D. in Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2001 B.Sc. in Chemistry, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA

Select Awards and Honors

2021 ACS POLY Fellow
2020 Herman F. Mark Scholar Award
2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist
2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist
2017 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award
2016 C&E News Talented 12
2016 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2016 Columbia Presidential Teaching Award
2016 Polymers Young Investigator Award
2016 JPOC Award for Early Excellence in the Field of Physical Organic Chemistry
2016 Inter-American Photochemical Society Young Investigator Award
2015 ONR Young Investigator Award
2015 Cottrell Scholar Award
2014 NSF CAREER Award
2014 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
2014 PMSE Young Investigator
2009 ICMR International Research Fellowship
2008 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 Saul and Sylvia Winstein Graduate Research Award, UCLA
2002 NSF/IGERT Fellowship: Materials Creation Training Program
2001 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2001 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
1999 NIH-Undergraduate Student Training for Academic Research Scholar
1999 Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar

Named Lectures

2020 Plenary Lecture: John K. Delores Stille Science Symposium, Colorado State University
2020 Keynote Speaker: POLYMAT Spotlight
2019 Plenary Lecture: Ohio Photochemical Society Meeting
2019 McGrody Frontiers in Science Lecture, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia
2018 Keynote Speaker: European Marie Curie Innovative Training Network Photo4Future, Netherlands
2018 Shipley Lecture: DowDuPont Electronic Materials Division
2018 Keynote Speaker: Quebec Center for Advanced Materials Meeting, Universite de Montreal
2018 Keynote Speaker: American Chemical Society on Minority Affairs
2018 Dow Distinguished Lecture, UCSB
2018 Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering Lecture, University of Maryland
2017 Semmelhack Symposium Lecture, Princeton University
2017 Macromolecules Innovation Institute Student Select Lecture, Virginia Tech
2017 Distinguished Speaker at the 18th Annual Mid-Hudson ACS URS
2017 4th Annual Targeting Excellence Lecture, University of Louisville
2017 Class of 1960’s Scholars Lecture, Williams College
2016 Award Address – Arthur C. Cope Scholar
2016 C&EN Talented 12 Lecture
2016 Plenary Lecture: 23rd IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry
2016 MIT-Georgia Pacific Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, MIT
2016 Keynote Speaker: ACS SERMACS Molecules to Functional Materials Symposium
2016 Keynote Speaker: Karle Symposium at the University of Michigan
2015 Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Lecture, Caltech
2015 Procter & Gamble Lecture, UCLA
2015 GSDSE Lecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Penn ACDC Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
2012 Sigma-Aldrich Lectureship at IUPAC MACRO-2012

Research Training Advisors

Postdoctoral:
Craig J. Hawker

Graduate School:
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
K. N. Houk

Undergraduate:
H. Leonardo Martinez