Martin Zdenek Bazant is an American chemical engineer, mathematician, physicist, and academic. He is the E. G. Roos (1944) Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2016 to 2020, he served as Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering, at before becoming its first Digital Learning Officer. Bazant is well-recognized for his teaching and research in electrochemistry, electrokinetics, transport phenomena, applied mathematics, and theoretical physics. He was elected President of the International Electrokinetics Society and Fellow of the American Physical Society, the International Society of Electrochemistry, 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. Education Bazant earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics in 1992 and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1993 from the University of Arizona. Subsequently, he undertook research in Physics for a Ph.D. at Harvard University, under the supervision of E. Kaxiras, and graduated in 1997. His dissertation was titled, Interatomic Forces in Covalent Solids. He then spent a year at Harvard as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering and Applied Sciences under the guidance of Howard A. Stone. Career Bazant began his academic career in 1998 as an instructor of Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed as Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2000 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2009 and built an experimental laboratory to compliment his theoretical research. He was promoted to full Professor in 2012 and named the inaugural Edwin G. Roos (1944) Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering in 2015. He has held honorary visiting faculty positions as the Paris Sciences Chair (2001, 2007) and Joliot Chair (2008) at École Supérièure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI Paris) and as the Global Climate and Energy Project Chair (2015–2016) at Stanford University. Bazant was the Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT from 2016 to 2020 and then assumed the new role of Digital Learning Officer. He has co-founded multiple research centers and serves as Director of D3BATT: Data-Driven Design of Rechargeable Batteries and the Center for Battery Sustainability. After organizing the 13th International Electrokinetics Symposium (ELKIN) in 2019, he co-founded the International Electrokinetics Society and became its first President. He served as Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics from 2011 to 2021