Co-Director, Kavli ENSI, James and Neeltje Tretter Chair, Professor of Chemistry
Email: yaghi@berkeley.edu
Omar M. Yaghi (B.S. 1985, SUNY-Albany, Ph.D. 1990 University of Illinois-Urbana, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1990-1992, Harvard University) is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is 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. He is also the Co-Director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute focusing on the basic science of energy transformation on the molecular level, as well as the California Research Alliance by BASF supporting joint academia-industry innovations. He is known for his key scientific contributions in the discovery and development of several extensive classes of new materials: metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs). These materials are useful in hydrogen and methane storage, carbon capture and conversion, water harvesting from desert air, and catalysis, to mention a few.