Martin Bazant

Martin Zdenek Bazant is an American chemical engineer, mathematician, physicist, and academic. He is the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1] From 2016 to 2020, he served as executive officer of the department of chemical engineering.[2]

Bazant is well recognized for his teaching and research in electrochemistry, electrokinetics, transport phenomena, and applied mathematics. He was elected President of the International Electrokinetics Society[3] and Fellow of the American Physical Society,[4] the International Society of Electrochemistry,[5] and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the chief scientific advisor of Saint-Gobain Research North America and chief scientist and co-founder of Lithios. His research spans the fields of electrochemistry, electrokinetics, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and theoretical physics. He has made advances in energy storage, water treatment, microfluidics, and nanotechnology and holds many patents.