Omar Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is 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 into the basic sciences. He has won science awards from 17 countries including Wolf Prize and election to the US National Academy of Sciences.