• Awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared) for developing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and pioneering reticular chemistry.
• Serves as University Professor and James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute.
• Became the seventh president of the World Cultural Council in January 2025.
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
• Earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1990 and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (1990–1992).

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