Martin Z. Bazant is the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research spans electrochemistry, electrokinetics, transport phenomena and related areas of engineering and mathematics. After a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1997, he joined the MIT faculty in Mathematics in 2000 and then Chemical Engineering in 2008, where he served as Executive Officer from 2016 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the International Society of Electrochemistry and the first President of the International Electrokinetics Society. His awards include the Alexander Kuznetsov Prize in Theoretical Electrochemistry (ISE), the Andreas Acrivos Award in Chemical Engineering (AIChE) and the MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs. He also serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor for Saint Gobain Research North America and Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Lithios, Inc.
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