Eddaoudi Mohamed

Eddaoudi received his BS degree in chemistry from Ibn Zohr University in 1991, and his MSc (1992) and PhD (1996) degrees from University Paris VII, France. He began his academic career at the University of South Florida, becoming a full professor in 2009. In the same year, he joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a founding faculty member. He is currently the Ibn Alhaytham distinguished professor of chemistry and chair of the Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials platform at KAUST. His research has been at the forefront of reticular chemistry and porous materials for nearly three decades. He conceived and developed transformative design strategies, including the supermolecular building block and supermolecular building layer approaches, as well as net-coded building units and merged-net methodologies, enabling the rational construction of programmable porous materials, such as metal-organic frameworks, with encoded structural and functional attributes. His work has led to the development of advanced materials capable of precise molecular recognition and exceptional selectivity, particularly for CO₂ capture and energy-efficient separations.