Joshua S. Figueroa completed his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 under the direction of Christopher C. Cummins. From 2005-2007, he was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Gerard Parkin. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry  and Materials Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), having started his independent career there in 2007. Figueroa’s research and educational efforts have been recognized with a number of awards, including National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2011), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2011), Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2012) and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2012). He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2014 and an  Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 2017. Most recently he received a 2021 NSF Award for Special Creativity for his synthetic work on low-valent transition metal isocyanide compounds. Figueroa’s research interests are focused broadly on synthetic inorganic, organometallic and materials chemistry and applications in catalysis. 

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