Michael Aziz

Michael John Aziz is an American research scientist and the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a division of Harvard University Center for the Environment, at which he served from 2009 to 2018. He is also a faculty coordinator at the Graduate Consortium for Energy and Environment, Green Energy Storage, and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee.[1]

Michael J. Aziz
NationalityUnited States
Alma mater
Known forOrganic battery
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Physics, Material Science, Energy science
InstitutionsHarvard University
ThesisKinetics of crystallization of B2O3 under pressure and theory of motion of the crystal-melt interface at wide departures from equilibrium (1983)
Doctoral advisorDavid Turnbull
Websitewww.seas.harvard.edu/matsci/people/aziz/aziz.html

Early life

Aziz had received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and then got his Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1983 while working under the direction of David Turnbull.[2] As a postdoc, he had spent two years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 1986 he is employed by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and he is currently the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies.[3]

Research

From 2012 to 2014, Aziz worked with Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Thomas Dudley Cabot, Roy Gordon and the United States Department of Energy to develop the grid-scale battery which will also use metal-free flow.[4][5] In 2016 he used vitamin B2 to improve the work of an organic battery that was developed two years prior.[6] The battery was later named Organic Mega Flow Battery, the research of which was published in journal Joule the same year.[7] Some of his research has resulted in patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.[8]

Awards

Since 2010, he is a fellow of the Materials Research Society.[9]

References
  1. "Michael J. Aziz". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  2. Aziz, Michael John (1984). Kinetics of crystallization of B2O3 under pressure and theory of motion of the crystal-melt interface at wide departures from equilibrium (Ph.D.). Harvard University. OCLC 12798061 – via ProQuest.
  3. "Michael J. Aziz (seminar announcement)" (PDF). University of Kansas Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  4. Karoff, Paul (January 8, 2014). "Battery offers renewable energy breakthrough". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  5. Kwong, Matt (January 10, 2014). "Organic battery hailed as cheap renewable energy solution". CBC News. CBC. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  6. Burrows, Leah (July 18, 2016). "A battery inspired by vitamins". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  7. Burrows, Leah (July 23, 2018). "Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds". Harvard University. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  8. "Patents by Inventor Michael J. Aziz". Justia.
  9. "Michael J. Aziz named 2010 MRS Fellow". March 22, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
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