Omar M. Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Yaghi has received very prestigious awards such as 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), and August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze (2020).