Martin Z. Bazant

Education

Employment

Visiting Professorships

Other Positions

Honors

Awards

Fellowships

Distinctions

Chairs

Lectures

Professional Activity

• President and Co-founder, International Electrokinetics Society
• Organizer, 13th International Symposium on Electrokinetics (ELKIN), MIT, June 12-14, 2019.
• Section Editor on Electrokinetics, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. (2017-present)
• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. (2011-present)
• Associate Editor, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group. (2013-2017)
• Organizer, Materials for a Sustainable Future, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Fall 2013.
• Co-Chair, Conference on "Nanofluidics, Colloids and Membranes", ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, July 2012.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on Nonlinear Electrokinetics, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD 2001.
• Organizer, Symposium on Electrokinetic Microfluidics, Society for Engineering Science, Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL, October 2011.
• Co-organizer, Microfluidics: Electrokinetic and interfacial phenomena", Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, Nov 9-13, 2009.
• Organizer, MIT-Spain Workshop on Electrokinetics, MIT, Oct 20, 2008.
• International Advisory Board, International Symposium on Electrokinetic Phenomena - ELKIN, electrokinetics.org.
• Scientific Advisory Board, International Electrokinetics Conference, Santa Fe, NM May 8-23, 2008.
• Organizing Committee, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, 23-25 May 2004. Symposia on "Modeling and simulation of granular flow" and "Conformal-mapping methods for microstructural evolution".
• Subject Editor, Handbook of Materials Modeling, Kluwer Academic Publishers (scheduled for 2004). Chapter 4 on "Mathematical Methods".
• Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee; Program Committee, 2001 meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Computational Physics (MIT, June, 2001).
• Co-organizer, Physical Mathematics Seminar, MIT 1999-2007.
• Referee for over 30 journals in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering.
• Member of the Americal Physical Society, Electrochemical Society, International Society of Electrochemistry, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , Materials Research Society, American Electrophoresis Society.

Academic Geneology

• Lineage of PhD Advisors in Theoretical Physics

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  1. Hermann von Helmholtz (Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm Institute, 1847 treatise)
  2. Henry Augustus Rowland (B.S. at Rensselaer, 1870; no Ph.D.; studied with Helmholtz before becoming professor at Johns Hopkins)
  3. Joseph Sweetman Ames (Johns Hopkins, 1890)
  4. Gregory Breit (Johns Hopkins, 1921)
  5. Charles Kittel (Berkeley, 1941)
  6. Morrel H. Cohen (Berkeley, 1952)
  7. James C. Phillips (Chicago, 1956)
  8. Marvin L. Cohen (Chicago, 1964)
  9. John D. Joannopoulos (Berkeley, 1974)
  10. Efthimios Kaxiras (MIT, 1987)
  11. Martin Z. Bazant (Harvard, 1997)

• Academic Descendants

  1. Jaehyuk Choi, Finance, Peking University HSBC Business School (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2005, career story)
  2. Ken Kamrin, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2008)
  3. Chris Rycroft, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2007).
  4. Ali Mani, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (postdoc 2011)
  5. Birger Horstmann, Electrochemical Materials, Helmholtz Institute, Ulm, Germany (postdoc 2012)
  6. Venkat Viswanathan, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (postdoc 2013-14)
  7. Matthew Suss, Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel (postdoc 2013-14)
  8. Peng Bai, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University (visiting student 2009-2011, postdoc 2012-2015, research scientist 2015-2017)
  9. Tao Gao, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah (postdoc 2017-2020)
  10. Juhyun Song, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2019)
  11. Zongyu (Joey) Gu, Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, MIT (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2019)
  12. Juner Zhu, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University (research scientst 2020-2022)
  13. Dimitrios Fraggedakis, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2021)
  14. Hongbo Zhao, Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2021)
  15. Huanhuan Tian, Institute of Devices and Systems, Zhangjiang Lab, China (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2022)

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