Omar M. Yaghi

Omar Mwannes Yaghi
عمر مونّس ياغي
Yaghi in 2008
Born (1965-02-09) February 9, 1965 (age 59)
CitizenshipJordanian, Saudi, American
Alma materUniversity at Albany, SUNY
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AwardsAAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2007)
RSC Centenary Prize (2010)
King Faisal International Prize (2015)
Mustafa Prize (2015)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2017)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (2018)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018)
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2018)
ENI award for Energy (2018)
Gregori Aminoff Prize (2019)
VinFuture Prize (2021)
Wilhelm Exner Medal (2023)
Tang Prize (2024)
Balzan Prize (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsReticular Chemistry
Institutions
ThesisSynthesis, structure, and reactivity of polyoxovanadates in nonaqueous media (1990)
Doctoral advisorWalter G. Klemperer
Other academic advisorsPost-doctoral advisor:
Websiteyaghi.berkeley.edu

Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences[1] as well as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[2]