Professor Omar Yaghi University of California, Berkeley, USA
Omar M. Yaghi obtained his B.S. in chemistry from University of New York-Albany (1985) and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois-Urbana (1990). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1990-1992). He held professorial positions at Arizona State University (1992-1999), University of Michigan (2000-2006) and UCLA (2007-2011). Since 2012, he has been the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute whose mission is to build centers of research in developing countries and provide opportunities for young scholars to discover and learn, the Co-Director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute focusing on the basic science of energy transformation on the molecular level, the Co-Director of the California Research Alliance by BASF supporting joint academia-industry innovations, and the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet whose mission is integrate artificial intelligence and data science into the basic sciences to solve climate issues and scale solutions globally. His research work led to over 325 published articles, which have received a total of more than 210,000 citations (December 2022). He has an h-index of 176 and ranked as one of the most impactful chemists worldwide Yaghi is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2019), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022), and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2022). He has also been honored with many awards from sixteen countries. A selected list includes: Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2004), Materials Research Society Medal (2007), American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2009), Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010), King Faisal International Prize in Science (2015), Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2017), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (2017), Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018), Eni Award for Excellence in Energy (2018), Aminoff Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2019), August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze Prize of the German Chemical Society (2020), Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Water Award (2020), Belgium’s International Solvay Chair in Chemistry (2021), VinFuture Prize for Emerging Science and Technology (2021), and the Wilhelm Exner Medal (2023).
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