Mohammadreza Ghadiri

M. Reza Ghadiri is an Iranian-American chemist who studies nanoscale science and technology.

Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1987) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.

The 1998 Feynman Prize was awarded to Ghadiri for work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization. His lab also pioneered the development of peptide self-replication.

Awards Searle Scholars Award 1991-1994; Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Award, 1991-1993; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993-1995; Eli Lilly Grantee 1994-1995; ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 1995; Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society 1999; Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology 1998; Merck-Frosst Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia 2001; Belleau Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2001.