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 also is a faculty coordinator at the Graduate Consortium for Energy and Environment, Green Energy Storage and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee.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. 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.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. In 2016 he used vitamin B2 to improve the work of an organic battery that was developed two years prior. The battery was later named Organic Mega Flow Battery, the research of which was published in journal Joule the same year. Some of his research has resulted in patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.Awards
Since 2010, he is a fellow of the Materials Research Society.
