# Richard Robson

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## Timeline

- **2026-07-03**: Appointment at Tsinghua University — Yaghi officially appointed to lead the new AI-driven materials research center, announced by Tsinghua during his ceremony speech focusing on AI-accelerated materials discovery.
- **2025**: Nobel Prize in Chemistry — Yaghi shares the Nobel Prize with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa for the development of metal-organic frameworks.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### 200-strong researcher network fuels Yaghi’s AI materials lab at Tsinghua
2026-07-05 00:40:47 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 3

Omar Yaghi will lead an AI-powered center at Tsinghua University, aiming to cut material design cycles by orders of magnitude. The move leverages his Nobel-winning MOF expertise and a 200-person network of chemists, boosting AI-driven chemistry research in China.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/ai-yaghi-materials-tsinghua

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