Fikile Brushett
Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Fikile Brushett is Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the development of transformative electrochemical technologies that enable a sustainable energy economy. He is especially fascinated by the fundamental processes that define the performance, cost, and lifetime of present and future electrochemical systems. Fikile received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010 and, from 2010-2012, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrochemical Energy Storage group at Argonne National Laboratory. He has received several awards from his research and teaching including being named one of Chemical & Engineering News’s Talented 12 in 2017.