Galen Stucky received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Iowa State University. After postdoctoral study at MIT and the Quantum Chemistry Institute, he held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sandia National Laboratory, and DuPont Central Research and Development before joining the UCSB faculty in 1985. At UCSB he holds appointments in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, in the Materials Department, and in the Biomolecular Science & Engineering Program. He is currently the E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science.
Honors include the ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials (2002), the International Mesostructured Materials Association Award (2004), the Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Award (2008); the Nano Today Award (2011); and the Prince of Asturias Award, with Avelino Corma and Mark E. Davis (2014). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and of the American Chemical Society (2013) and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.