Rate My Professor Víctor García-López

Víctor García-López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, having joined the faculty in the fall of 2020. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico in 2011. He completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Rice University in 2016, followed by postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich from 2016 to 2018 and a second postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University from 2018 to 2020.

His research interests include artificial molecular machines, chemical probes for lipids and membranes, and supramolecular photochemistry. García-López has received several honors, including the LSU College of Science Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2025, the Scialog Fellow for Automating Chemical Laboratories in 2025, the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in 2025, the Sauvage-Stoddart-Feringa Junior Award for Molecular Machines in 2022, and the Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2019. He is a member of the Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters Early Career Advisory Board and has served as an outstanding reviewer for Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.