Omar M. Yaghi

Omar Mwannes Yaghi
Omar Mwannes Yaghi
عمر مونّس ياغي
	Yaghi in 2008
Born	February 9, 1965 (age 59); Amman, Jordan
Citizenship	Jordanian, Saudi, American
Alma mater	University at Albany, SUNY; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Awards	AAAS 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
Fields	Reticular Chemistry
Institutions	Arizona State University; University of Michigan; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley;
Thesis	Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of polyoxovanadates in nonaqueous media (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Walter G. Klemperer
Other academic advisors	Post-doctoral advisor: Richard H. Holm;
Website	yaghi.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]