Antonio Garcia

Postdoctoral Scholar, Helgeson Lab

Biography:
Dr. Antonio Garcia IV is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow co-advised by Matthew Helgeson, Megan Valentine, and Samanvaya Srivastava. Antonio brings his passion for environmental sustainability and is interested in exploring the potential for transforming recovered polyurethane materials into commercially useful organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Before his research endeavors at UC Santa Barbara, Antonio was an NIH MARC-U*STAR scholar at California State University, Los Angeles, where he received his undergraduate degree in chemistry. He subsequently pursued his doctoral studies in organic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), under the advisement of Prof. Suzanne A. Blum.

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University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080