Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Diego State University!
Hours of Operation: 8:30am-12pm; 1-4:30pm Pacific Time Monday-Friday in GMCS-209.

SDSU offers the ACS-accredited bachelor's degree.
Announcements
- Ph.D. student Kristine Legaspi has again made the news for her remarkable skill combining chemistry with plushies! Nice work, Kristine!
- Prof. Rees Garmann has a stunning new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on how viruses selectively encapsulate their own RNA! Congratulations, Garmann group!
- Please welcome the newest addition to our faculty, analytical chemist Prof. Jose Luis Uribe!! Prof. Uribe will be a founding member of the chemistry program at SDSU's Imperial Valley campus, christening the new STEM lab facility in Brawley.
- Congratulations to Prof. John Love, recipient of the 2025 Faculty Sustainability Award!
- The Sohl lab featured strongly in this year's awards at the SDSU Student Symposium, with M.S. student Darius Hyde taking one of the Provost's Awards and Josselyn Jacobo winning an Undergraduate Research Excellence Award. Congratulations, Sohl group!
Upcoming Events
Oct 17 | Dept. Seminar – Prof. Lisa M. Jones, University of California, San Diego, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Oct 24 | Dept. Seminar – Veronica O'Connor, CSU Fullerton, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Nov 14 | Dept. Seminar – Prof. Robert Zeller, San Diego State University, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Nov 21 | Dept. Seminar – Prof. Alina Schimpf, U.C. San Diego, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Dec 05 | Dept. Seminar – Prof. Dong Yifan, U.C. Riverside, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Feb 13 | Dept. Seminar – Dr. Stefan Gross, Senior Director, Servier Pharmaceuticals, GMCS-301, 2:00 PM |
Department Contacts
Chair: Tom Huxford
Undergraduate Advisor: Peter van der Geer, pvanderg@sdsu.edu
Graduate Advisor: Christal Sohl, csohl@sdsu.edu
Doctoral Program Director: Byron Purse, bpurse@sdsu.edu
Other Inquiries: cheminfo@sdsu.edu
Thank you!
Recent donors to SDSU Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Mr. Jay Breaux
- Richard L. Jenkins, Ph.D.
- BlueDoor LLC
Main Office: GMCS 209 • 5500 Campanile Drive • San Diego, CA 92182-1030 (U.S.A.) • Phone: (619) 594-5595 • Fax: (619) 594-4634