The Paper's reporter Yue Huairang
Tsinghua University has also joined the top international scholars.
The Paper's reporter learned from the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University that on the morning of January 14, 2022, the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as the Institute of Nuclear Research) held an online appointment Prof. Omar M. Yaghi's ceremony as Professor Emeritus of Tsinghua University.
Prof. Omar M. Yaghi
Professor Zhang Qiang, Deputy Director of the Personnel Office of Tsinghua University, presided over the appointment ceremony, and Vice President Professor Zheng Li delivered a speech and issued a certificate of appointment. Many well-known professors and experts from inside and outside the university attended the appointment ceremony as guests, including Professor Wang Bo, Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor Wang Xun of the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University, Professor Wang Cheng and Professor Deng Hexiang of Wuhan University, Professor Zhu Guangshan of Northeast Normal University, Professor Lan Yaqian of Nanjing Normal University, Professor Wang Wei of Lanzhou University, Professor Jiang Zhongyi of Tianjin University, Professor Fang Qianrong of Jilin University, Professor Ma Heping of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Professor Xiang Zhonghua of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and Professor Jiang Jiaxing of Shaanxi Normal University , Professor Zhang Fan of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Jiang Hailong of the University of Science and Technology of China, etc.
Professor Wang Jianlong, Vice President of the Institute of Nuclear energy and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University, Professor Tong Jiejuan, Researcher He Xiangming, Associate Professor Xu Hong, etc. attended as the members of the organizers.
The appointment ceremony took the form of a live broadcast that combined the main venue and the sub-venue. More than 30,000 professional visitors from the main venue of the Tencent Conference, Scientific Research Cloud-B Station, Scientific Research Cloud-Douyu, Scientific Research Cloud-Video Number, Scientific Research Cloud-Baidu, Scientific Research Cloud-YouTube, Scientific Research Cloud-Facebook, Scientific Research Cloud Official Website and other live broadcasting platforms have participated in the online viewing and listened to Professor Yaghi's report "The POWER OF RETICULAR CHEMISTRY: Ultra-Porous Crystals for Carbon." Capture and Harvesting Water from Desert Air”。
In recent years, the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University has carried out applied research on COF/MOF materials and achieved some pioneering results, such as the new topology COF hydrogen storage (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 92.) and MOF separators for lithium-ion batteries (Nature Commun., 2022, 13, 172).). The addition of Yaghi, a top professor in the international industry, will further expand the application research of COF/MOF in the field of new energy.
According to public information, Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965. Jordanian-American chemist, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, and currently James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
Omar Yagi received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1990, went to Harvard University for postdoctoral research in the same year, became an assistant professor at Arizona State University in 1992, a professor at the University of Michigan in 1999, a professor at UCLA in 2006, a James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States.
Omar Yagi and his research team pioneered two major research areas, including metal-organic frame materials (MOFs) and covalent organic frame materials (COFs). These crystalline porous materials, due to their ultra-high specific surface area and high certainty at the atomic scale, have not only become a research hotspot in the field of chemistry in the past 20 years, but also brought a series of new solutions to major challenges in the world's energy and environmental fields, such as clean energy (hydrogen, methane) storage, carbon dioxide capture, desert water extraction and heterogeneous catalysis. For his pioneering contributions in the field of reticular chemistry, Professor Yaghi has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry several times since 2006.
Omar Yagi has published more than 270 academic papers, 29 of which have been published in the journals Science and Nature, which have been cited more than 137,000 times, and his H index (143) ranks 2nd among chemists in the world. In 2006, Professor Yaghi was named one of the "Ten Outstanding Scientists of America" by Popular Science Magazine.
Recently, Tsinghua University has a number of internationally renowned scholars joining.
For example, Fields Medal winner Cocher Birkar was formally hired at Tsinghua in June 2021. Born in Iran, Kocher Birkar is a British mathematician and former professor at Cambridge University. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2004 and has made significant contributions to the field of biortic geometry, particularly in presenting his views on minimal models, singularities and linear systems. In 2018, with a breakthrough in the field of biorgan geometry, Birkar, who was less than 40 years old, won the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics". After joining Tsinghua, he taught at Qiuzhen College and participated in the promotion of the "Yau Chengtong Mathematics Leadership Talent Training Program". His appointment is the first time that a Chinese university has introduced a non-Chinese Fields Medal winner.
Tsinghua University released the news in November 2021: Recently, Nicolai Reshetikhin, a top international mathematical physicist, officially joined Tsinghua University and has opened a course "Knot Invariants and 3D Manifolds" in the fall semester. Professor Nikolai Leschtikin is one of the founders of quantum group theory, one of the founders of RT invariants, an important promoter of quantum integrable system theory, an important contributor to Poisson geometry and symplectic geometry, an important contributor to Quantum Kac-Moody algebra, and the founder of quantum 6j marks related to quantum gravity.
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