Professor Michael J Aziz
Gene & Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials & Energy Technologies, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Michael Aziz has been a member of the faculty at what is now the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since he joined in 1986 and is now Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies. He has made significant contributions to a number of fields in applied physics and materials science including the kinetics of rapid solidification; pressure and stress effects on kinetics of diffusion and growth; nonequilibrium surface pattern formation during ion irradiation; and applications of materials synthesized utilizing nonequilibrium kinetics.
His recent research interests are energy storage and CO2 capture. He is co-inventor of the aqueous organic redox flow battery, with multiple patents licensed for commercialization. He is co-recipient of the 2019 Energy Frontiers Prize from Eni for these developments. He is currently authoring a textbook, "A First Course on Energy Technology: Depletable and Renewable Resources, Interconversion, End Use".