Research Group

Bazant Research Group, August 2010. Front: Daosheng Deng, Linda Mousseau, Yeqing Fu; Back: Mathias Andersen, Xiaochuan Yang, Matthew Pinson, Ben Derrett, Todd Ferguson, Martin Bazant, Peng Bai, Henrik Bruus. Absent: Boris Zaltzman, Dan Cogswell, Markus Schmuck, Joseph Atnafu.

Current Members

Graduate Students

William Braff (Mechanical Engineering) Microfluidic fuel cells. (primary advisor: Cullen Buie)
Vicki Dydek (Chemical Engineering) Electrokinetic desalination. (primary advisor: Klavs Jensen)
Todd Ferguson (Chemical Engineering) Modeling of Li-ion batteries. Spotlight article on Todd by MIT Energy Initiative.
Yeqing Fu (Chemical Engineering) Modeling of pseudocapacitors.
Matthew Pinson (Physics) Statistical physics of Li-ion batteries.
Sven Schlumpberger (Chemical Engineering) Electrokinetic desalination.
Juhyun Song (Chemical Engineering) Modeling Li-ion batteries.
Postdocs
Dan Cogswell. Phase field simultions of Li-ion batteries. 2010-present.
Daosheng Deng. Desalination experiments. 2010-present. 2009-present.
Ali Mani. Nonlinear electrokinetics, desalination shocks. 2011-present.
Undegraduates
Joseph Atnafu. Desalination experiments.
Devin Zhang. Desalination experiments.
Administrator
Linda Mousseau

Alumni

Ph.D. Students

Jaehyuk Choi. Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2005). Thesis: Advection-Diffusion-Limited Aggregation and Dense Granular Flow.
Kevin T. Chu Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2005). Thesis: Asymptotic Analysis of Extreme Electrochemical Transport. Next: Postdoc in mechanical engineering at Princeton University.
Jeremy A. Levitan. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT (2005). Thesis: Experimental Investigation of Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis.
Chris H. Rycroft Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2007). Thesis: Multiscale modeling of granular flow. Next: Postdoc in mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.
Kenneth N. Kamrin Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2008). Thesis: Stochastic and deterministic models for dense granular flow. Next: Lecturer in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (2010).
Mustafa Sabri Kilic Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2008). Thesis: Induced-charge electrokinetics at large voltages.
Damian Burch Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2009). Thesis: Intercalation Dynamics in Li-ion Batteries.

Postdocs
Markus Schmuck. (2009-2011) Homogenization analysis of ion transport in porous media.
Chien-Chih Huang . (2007-2009) Induced-charge electro-osmosis, microfluidic pumps. MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. (Co-advised by Prof. T. Thorsen, Mechanical Enginering.)
Jeremy Levitan (2007). Applications of nonlinear electrokinetics in microfluidic devices. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
Gogi Singh (2006-2007). Modeling lithium rechargeable batteries. Center for Materials Science and Engineering (IRG IV).
Yuxing Ben (2004-2005). Simulation and design of ICEO-based microfluidic devices.
M.S. Students
Ken Gosier . M.S. in Financial Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (2002). Thesis: Generalized Black-Scholes models for pricing and hedging options with residual risk.
Young Han Lee. M.S. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2002). Thesis: Noise detection in financial correlation matrices.
B.S. Students
Ben Derrett. Cambridge-MIT exchange student. Li-ion battery modeling. (2009-2010)
Matt Fishburn B. S. in Electrical Engineering, MIT (2007). Advanced Undergraduate Project: Electronics for control of portable electrokinetic microfluidic devices.
Jakub Kominiarcz B. S. in Physics, MIT (2007). Senior thesis: Numerical simulations of AC electro-osmotic pumps.
Camilo Guaqueta. B. S. in Materials Science, MIT (2003). Thesis: Computer simulations of a stochastic model for granular drainage.
Mani Mahjouri. B.S. in Mathematics and Economics, MIT (2000). Thesis: Pricing risky derivative securities.
Research Assistants
Michael Hess. Undergraduate intern, from Magdeburg, Germany, spring/summer 2009. Modeling lithium intercalation in graphite.
Hoyin Au. Undergraduate intern, from Bunker Hill Community College, summer 2009. Modeling Li-ion battery composite electrodes.
Brian Wheeler UROP 2007. Applications of ACEO pumps.
Kapil Subramanian Undergraduate intern, summer 2007, from Indian Institute of Technology. ACEO experiments (with T. Thorsen).
Andrew Jones UROP spring 2007. ACEO experiments (with T. Thorsen).
Jeremie Palacci. Undergraduate intern, summer 2005. Visiting from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Thesis: Spot-model simulations of periodic systems.
Serginio Sylvain. UROP, Dry Fluids Lab, 2005.
Ken Weaver. Undergraduate intern in the MIT Materials Processing Center, summer 2002. Simulations of granular drainage.
Faculty visitors
Armand Ajdari. ESPCI, Paris, France. 2005-2006.
Henrik Bruus. Technical University of Denmark, Microtechnology. Fall 2010.
Evgeny Demekhin. Kuban State Univ., Russia. Fall 2010.
Arshad Kudrolli. Clark University, Physics. 2003-2007.
Brian Storey. Olin College, Mechanical Engineering. 2006-2007.
Boris Zaltzman. Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Applied Mathematics, 2009-2010.
Ph.D. student visitors
Mathias Andersen. Ph.D. student from Technical University of Denmark. Desalination simulation.
Costas Anastassiou. Imperial College Department of Bioengineering. summer 2006, Theory of electrochemical sensors.
Peng Bai. Ph.D. student from Tsinghua Univ., automotive engineering. Li-ion battery modeling.
Raul Rica. Univ. de Granada, Spain, physics dept. 2009. Electrodiffusiophoresis.

Photo Album


Group dinner, June 26, 2007: Gogi Singh, Yee Lok Wong, Ken Kamrin, MZB, Chris Rycroft, Kapil Subramanian	The group, led by Dr. Rycroft, dancing to soul music on the Blues Barge.

Candlelin bowling, June 2005 (clockwise from top left):
Jean-Christophe Nave, Jeremy Levitan, Jeremie Palacci, Kevin Chu, Ken Karmin, Yuxing Ben, Jaehyuk Choi, Chris Rycroft, and MZB.

Group dinner, Dec. 2003 (clockwise from center left):
Kevin Chu, Jeremy Levitan, Chris Rycroft, Jaehyuk Choi, Ruben Rosales, Dionisios Margetis, and MZB.

Ken and Chris disco dancing ("shootin' the floor") 2007.

Graduate student lunch, October 2006.

Kenny Karmin, MZB, Sabri Kilic, Damian Burch, and Chris Rycroft. Back to the top