Omar Yaghi

Omar Yaghi, a native of Jordan received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany (1985) and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990). He started his independent career as an assistant professor in 1992 at Arizona State University, moved to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as Robert W. Parry Professor of Chemistry in 1999, and then UCLA in 2006 as Christopher S. Foote Professor of Chemistry and Irving and Jean Stone Chair Professor in Physical Sciences. Since 2012, he has been in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute and the co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute and the California Research Alliance by BASF. http://yaghi.berkeley.edu/