Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
5531 Boelter Hall
Panagiotis D. Christofides
Department Chair
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Undergraduate Students -
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Graduate Students
Our Latest Research News
Aditya Nandy Named Rising Star in AI
Incoming Assistant Professor in the UCLA Samueli, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Aditya Nandy, a computational chemist, uses AI to tackle challenges in chemistry and biophysics. At MIT, he used AI to analyze data on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)...
Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?
A recent paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by UCLA researchers including CBE Faculty Irene Chen, in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, offers new insights into the mystery of life.
CBE Faculty Nasim Annabi and Yuzhang Li Named to 2024 List of World’s Most Influential Researchers
Congratulations to CBE Faculty Nasim Annabi and Yuzhang Li for being among the nine UCLA engineers named to the prestigious Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list!
Department Announcements
Faculty Search for Assistant Professors Starting in 2025
2024 QS Ranking: UCLA CBE No. 7 in the US
In the just-released and broadly watched worldwide 2024 QS World University Subject ranking of Chemical Engineering Departments, our Department was ranked at No. 7 in the US (our Department has been steadily ranked in the top-10 in the US in this ranking since the...