Professor Bazan obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Ottawa and his Ph.D. from MIT. After working at Caltech as an NSERCC postdoctoral fellow, he started his academic career at the University of Rochester in 1992. In 1998, Gui became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials (Engineering) and in June 2000, Gui became the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids.

Gui's awards include the following:

Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation,2005

NSF Special Creativity Award, 2003

Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1999
Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1998
Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1997
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Aears, 1996-1998
Sloan Research Fellow Award, 1996-1998
NSF CAREER Award, 1995-1998
Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1992-1993
NSERCC Postdoctoral Fellowship, November 1990-May 1992
NSERCC 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship, September 1986-June 1990

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Gui Bazan can be reached at (805) 893-5538, or by Email: bazan@chem.ucsb.edu