Omar Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at University of California Berkeley, Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, Co-Director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute (Kavli ENSI), Co-Director of California Research Alliance by BASF (CARA), Co-Director and Chief Scientist of the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP).