WELCOME to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara!

Our department consists of 32 faculty, 130 graduate students, 30 postdoctoral researchers, and 28 staff members, all dedicated to exploring the frontiers of chemical science. All branches of chemistry are well represented, including materials, inorganic, organic, physical, theoretical, analytical, and biochemical. We also feature a strong collaborative research environment, an ethos which is fostered by the creation of many interdisciplinary research units. Our department is one of the top programs in the country. Over the period 1997-2007 UCSB ranked 8^th in the world in its citation impact in chemistry and the department ranked 22^nd in the National Research Council rankings. The faculty includes two Nobel Chemistry prize winners (Walter Kohn, 1998, and Alan Heeger, 2000). In addition, UCSB was ranked 7^th in the world in 2011 by the Centre for Science and Technologies Studies at Leiden University and 11^th in the US in 2010 by Washington Monthly.