Martin Z. Bazant

I am broadly interested in engineering physics and applied mathematics. My research focuses on transport phenomena with applications in energy storage, water purification, and lab-on-a-chip technology. I am developing a class on Electrochemical Energy Systems (10.626/10.426), whose lecture notes and problems provide the starting point for a textbook I am writing on Electrochemical Physics. My faculty career at MIT began in the Department of Mathematics, where I led the Nonlinear Electrokinetics Group, Dry Fluids Laboratory, and Applied Mathematics Computational Laboratory, developed a class on Random Walks and Diffusion (18.366), and continue hold a joint appointment. In 2008, I joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in order to focus more on applied research and to start a new experimental laboratory. My lab is currently developing a new approach to water desalination and investigating transport phenomena in various electrochemical and microfluidic systems, closely coupled to our mathematical modeling.

Education

Ph.D.	Physics, Harvard University (Thesis: Interatomic Forces in Covalent Solids)	1997
M.S.	Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona	1993
B.S.	Mathematics and Physics, University of Arizona	1992

Employment

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, MIT	2012-present
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT	2009-2012
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT	2003-2012
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT	2000-2003
Instructor of Applied Mathematics and Postdoctoral Associate, MIT	1998-1999
Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics and Applied Sciences, Harvard University	1997-1998

Other Positions

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Aug 2008 - Dec 2008
Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France	Jul 2007 - Aug 2008
Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, U. Minnesota	Sept 2004
Physico-chimie Theorique, ESPCI, Paris, France	Aug 2002 - Jan 2003
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France	June 1999

Honors

Popular Science Brilliant Ten	2007
Joliot Chair and Paris Sciences Chair, ESPCI	2007
Department of Energy Early Career Award	2002
Paris Sciences Chair, ESPCI	2002

Press

Revealing how a battery material works, D. Chandler, MIT News, Feb. 8, 2012.
Fill 'er up with... lithium by Dana Mackenzie, SIAM News, Mar. 1, 2010.
MIT Energy Fellow's model may power up the batteries of the future, MIT Energy Initiative, June 17, 2009.
`Two-faced' particles act like tiny submarines, Science News, Mar. 3, 2008.
Big lab on a tiny chip, by C. Q. Choi, Scientific American, October 2007, pp. 100-103.
Theoretical plumber, by G. Mone, Popular Science, October 2007.(some follow-up articles: USA Today, MIT News Office)
Fast Moving Front: "Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena", Thompson Scientific, Sept. 2007.
MIT's "Dream Team" wins SIAM Award for MCM 07, SIAM News, June 12, 2007.
Battery-powered lab-on-a-chip could be near, by R. C. Johnson, EE Times , Nov. 27, 2006.
Portable 'lab on a chip' could speed blood tests, MIT press release, Oct. 16, 2006.
Micropumps create a "fluid conveyor belt" , ISN press release, Sept. 9, 2006.
Fractal tendrils, by D. Halber, Tech Talk, Feb. 4, 2004.
Team combines modeling and experimentation to improve microfluidics, ISN News, Feb. 2, 2004.

Professional Activity

Editorial Board, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics.
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, applied mathematics, and engineering.
Member of the Americal Physical Society, Electrochemical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , Materials Research Society, American Electrophoresis Society.

bazant@mit.edu

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