BIO
Jeffrey Long is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on the design and controlled synthesis of novel inorganic materials and molecules – including metal-organic frameworks – toward the fundamental understanding of new physical phenomena, with applications in gas storage, molecular separations, conductivity, catalysis, and magnetism. Director of the Center for Gas Separations at UC Berkeley, he is a two-time winner of the Special Creativity Award of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and has received the Ten at Ten Award for Energy Frontiers Research Centers from the U.S. Department of Energy. Among his other distinctions, he holds the Ludwig Mond Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom).