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UCLA Samueli
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
5531 Boelter Hall
Panagiotis D. Christofides
Department Chair
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Faculty Members - 20
Research Labs & Centers - 319
Undergraduate Students - 120
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Our Latest Research News
Dr. Yuzhang Li joins CBE
We are excited to announce the recruitment of Dr. Yuzhang Li to UCLA! Dr. Li joined our Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering on July 1st, 2020. Dr. Li brings to our department his expertise in materials synthesis, electrochemistry, and advanced...
Dr. Irene A. Chen joins CBE
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Irene A. Chen has joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA! Irene Chen’s laboratory researches biomolecular design and evolution in nanoscale systems. Her group studies life-like biochemical systems...
Jim Davis-Winner of the MLC’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Jim Davis, Vice Provost IT & Chief Academic Technology Officer at UCLA and Principal Investigator & CIO Advisor of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, won the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s prestigious 2019 Lifetime Achievement...
Department Announcements
2020 Commencement Awardees
Virtual Commencement In lieu of an in-person ceremony at Pauley Pavilion, our virtual commencement will be aired on this website at 12:30 p.m. PDT on Saturday, June 13. You will also be able to watch the ceremony on the Samueli YouTube channel or via our Facebook...
2020 QS Ranking: UCLA CBE No. 6 in the US
In the just-released and broadly watched worldwide 2020 QS World University ranking of Chemical Engineering Departments, our Department was ranked at No. 6 in the US (this is the fourth year in a row that our Department has been ranked in the top-8 in the US; please...