Michael John Aziz is an American research scientist and engineer and the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at the

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. He is an affiliated faculty member of the

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Center for the Environment, for which he served from 2009 to 2018 as the faculty coordinator for the Graduate Consortium for Energy and Environment. He is also Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Quino Energy, Inc.

Early life

Aziz had received his B.S. from the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

in 1978 and then got his Ph.D. in

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from

in 1983 while working under the direction of David Turnbull. As a postdoc, he had spent two years at the

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is sponsored by the United Sta ...

where he was a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 1986 he has been a faculty member on what is now the

and he is currently the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies.

Research

Starting in 2012, Aziz has worked with Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Roy Gordon and the

United States Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear w ...

to develop aqueous-soluble organic flow batteries for grid-scale electrical energy storage. 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

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Awards

* 1993 Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...

* 2004 Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

* 2010

Materials Research Society The Materials Research Society (MRS) is a non-profit, professional organization for materials researchers, scientists and engineers. Established in 1973, MRS is a member-driven organization of approximately 13,000 materials researchers from academi ...

fellow * 2016 Bruce Chalmers Award from

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers that encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic ...

* 2019 Energy Frontiers Prize,

ENI award The Eni Award is a prize awarded by the Italian oil and gas company Eni with the aim of encouraging better use of energy sources and increased environmental research. The strict award guidelines and the notable names on the selection committee (in ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aziz, Michael 20th-century births Living people California Institute of Technology alumni Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)