Rate Professor Omar Yaghi

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990; B.S. in Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, 1985.

Research Interests: Reticular chemistry, focusing on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for gas storage, separation, and catalysis.

Appointments: James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Awards: Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018); King Faisal International Prize in Science (2020); BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017).

Publications: Over 300 peer-reviewed articles in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Materials.

Additional Contributions: Founder of Basolite and other MOF-based technologies; editorial board member for Chemical Reviews.