brief Luis M. Campos was born in Guadalajara, México, and then moved to LA where he began his californian public education: compton usd, lausd, csu, and uc. he has received a B.Sc. in chemistry from csu dominguez hills (2001) and a Ph.D. from ucla (2006). after leaving csudh, he conducted research at king's college, london, with S. Wilsey. then, in 2001, he joined the laboratories of M. A. Garcia-Garibay and K. N. Houk at ucla. while at ucla, he visited the laboratories of D. G. Truhlar at the university of minnesota (2003), and N. S. Sariciftci at the linz institute for organic solar cells (austria, 2004 and 2005). he is now a postdoc in the laboratory of C. J. Hawker at ucsb. extended Luis M. Campos was born in Guadalajara, México, and at an early age, moved to Los Angeles where he began his californian public education: compton unified school district (usd), los angeles usd, california state university (csu), and university of california (uc). he has received a b.s. in chemistry from the csu dominguez hills in 2001, and a ph.d. from the department of chemistry & biochemistry at the university of california, los angeles (ucla) in 2006. prior to his graduate education, he conducted research in organic chemistry at ucla as a nih-funded center for academic research & excellence (care) scholar and at csudh as a 1999-2001 nih undergraduate student training in academic research (nih-ustar) scholar. at csudh he worked under the guidance of prof. H. Leonardo Martinez on computationally understanding photochemical reactions of ketones. as a mirt scholar (summer 2001), he conducted research at kings college london in the area of theoretical organic photochemistry under the guidance of dr. Sarah Wilsey. at ucla, he worked with prof. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and prof. K. N. Houk as a nsf, igert materials creation training program, and Paul & Daisy Soros fellow. under their supervision, he focused on understanding and engineering organic photochemical reactions in the solid state. While at ucla (in 2003), he visited the laboratory of Donald G. Truhlar (u. of minnesota) to perform direct dynamics calculations of ketones that react via photoinduced h-tunneling. he also visited the lab of prof. N. Serdar Sariciftci (austria, 2004 and 2005) to carry out studies on solar cell device fabrication and characterization using low bandgap polymers (in collaboration with Fred Wudl, ucla, and John R. Reynolds, university of florida). he is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the materials research laboratory (ucsb) working under the supervision of prof. Craig J. Hawker. home about research personal contact links