and Section Editor on Electrokinetics for Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science since 2017. He has consulted for Saint-Gobain on the manufacturing of ceramics and plastics since 2008 and became the Chief Scientific Advisor for Saint-Gobain Research North America in 2013. He also advises Johnson Controls on automation for healthy buildings. Bazant co-founded two MIT startup companies: ICEO in 2005, which developed induced-charge electro-osmotic microfluidic devices, and Lithios in 2022, where he serves as Chief Scientist. Teaching Bazant has created many open educational resources, including open courseware and massive open online courses (MOOCs). He created the MOOC, 10.50x Analysis of Transport Phenomena. In 2018, Part 1: Mathematical Methods launched on MITx and edX, followed by Part 2: Applications in 2021. For 10.50x, he was awarded the MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs and selected as a finalist for the edX Prize. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bazant created 10.S95x Physics of COVID-19 Transmission on edX to teach the science of infectious aerosols and advocate for physics-based safety guidelines. Research Bazant has authored several publications including articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. His research spans the fields of electrochemistry, electrokinetics, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and theoretical physics. He he has worked in energy storage, water treatment, microfluidics, and nanotechnology and has been granted many patents. His contributions have been recognized by the Kuznetsov Prize in Theoretical Electrochemistry and the Acrivos Award in Chemical Engineering. In electrochemistry, Bazant is best known for the theory of electrochemical kinetics based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and related phase-field models of lithium-ion batteries. By expressing overpotential and ionic activity in terms of functional derivatives of the Gibbs free energy, he generalized the Butler-Volmer equation and Marcus theory of electron transfer and formulated coupled ion-electron transfer (CIET), as the reaction mechanism for lithium intercalation. Successful predictions of the theory include intercalation waves and coherent spinodal decomposition in nanoparticles, mosaic instabilities in porous electrodes, and control of phase separation by electro-autocatalysis, e.g. in lithium iron phosphate. In electrokinetics, Bazant is well known for developing models of the electrical double layer and various nonlinear electrokinetic phenomena in microfluidics, colloids, and membranes. He analyzed ionic relaxation in response to a large, time-dependent voltage, which led to the first theory of capacitive deionization, a water purification technique. His early research in electrokinetics coined the term “induced-charge electro-osmosis” and led