Omar M. Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan (1965). He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana (1990) with
Professor Walter G. Klemperer. He was an NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow at Harvard University (1990-92) with Professor
Richard H. Holm. He then joined the faculty at Arizona State
University in 1992 as Assistant Professor and received the
ACS-Exxon Solid-State Chemistry Award in 1998. He moved to
the University of Michigan as the Robert W. Parry Collegiate
Professor of Chemistry (1999) and shortly thereafter was
awarded the Sacconi Medal by the Inorganic Division of the
Italian Chemical Society. Since January 2006, he has been
the Christopher S. Foote Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry at UCLA, Director of the Center for Reticular
Chemistry, and Director of the Clean Energy Network at the
California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA. Recently he was
listed among the "Brilliant 10" in the USA by Popular
Science magazine, and received Materials Research Society
Medal for pioneering work in the theory, design, synthesis
and applications of metal-organic frameworks and the AAAS
Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best paper published in
Science (2006-2007) and for outstanding contributions to
Science. He has published over 100 papers which have
received an average of over 100 citations per paper. He is
listed among the top 0.25% cited chemists worldwide for his
work on the design and construction of chemical structures
using the molecular building blocks. This work has led to a
number of new classes of useful porous materials such as
metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and
zeolitic imidazolate frameworks. His research program
focuses on the basic science of porous discrete and extended
structures and their applications in clean energy (hydrogen
storage, methane storage, carbon dioxide capture),
mechanical switching, catalysis, and gas separation
technologies.
Omar M. Yaghi
Christopher S. Foote Chair Professor
UCLA Department of Chem. and Biochem.
607 East Charles E. Young Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
Tel: 310-206-0398
Fax: 310-206-5891
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