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Omar M. Yaghi received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He is the James Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, which aims to establish research centers in developing countries while providing young scholars with opportunities to discover and learn. He co-directs the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute (Kavli ENSI), focusing on energy transformation at the molecular level. Additionally, he is involved with the California Research Alliance BASF (CARA) to support joint academia-industry innovations and the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP), which aims to develop cost-efficient versions of ultra-porous materials known as Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) to address climate change. His work encompasses the synthesis, structure, and properties of inorganic and organic compounds and the design and construction of new crystalline materials. He is known for pioneering the field of Reticular Chemistry and has published over 300 articles, achieving an h-index of 190 and more than 250,000 citations.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Lead in teaching and research in the field of chemistry.
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