Aimy Ming Jii Bazylak (née Hom, born in Regina, Saskatchewan)[1] is a Canadian professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy.[2][3] Her research involves microfluidics, nanofluidics, and their applications in fuel cell design and in carbon sequestration.[4]

Education and career

Bazylak graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003, with great distinction in engineering physics, also winning the university's Dr. E.L. Harrington Prize.[5] She completed her doctorate in 2008 at the University of Victoria with the dissertation Liquid Water Transport in Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers,[6] supported in part by the inaugural Bullitt Environmental Fellowship,[7] and while there also taking part as a driver in the Shell Eco-marathon.[8]

She became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 2008.[9] At Toronto, she is director (on leave) of the Institute for Sustainable Energy.[9][10]

Recognition

Bazylak was named as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2019,[2] and is also a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering.[11] She was elected to the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.[12][11]

She was named an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow in 2015, and in 2020 was named a Helmholtz International Fellow by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres,[11] funding her research collaborations with Roswitha Zeis at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm.[13]

The University of Toronto gave Bazylak their annual McLean Award, a $125,000 award for outstanding early career researchers, in 2020.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Births", Regina Leader-Post, 17 May 1980 – via Newspapers.com
  2. 1 2 "Aimy Bazylak", Faculty and staff, University of Toronto Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, retrieved 2020-11-15
  3. ↑ "Aimy Bazylak: Making Fuel Cells a Clean Energy Reality", Chairholders, Canada Research Chair Program, retrieved 2020-11-15
  4. 1 2 Irving, Tyler (21 August 2020), "McLean Award recipient Aimy Bazylak is creating new technologies for sustainable energy", University of Toronto Engineering News, retrieved 2020-11-15
  5. ↑ 2003 Spring Convocation (PDF), University of Saskatchewan, pp. 36, 51, 54, retrieved 2020-11-15
  6. ↑ Bazylak, Aimy Ming Jii (2008), Liquid water transport in fuel cell gas diffusion layers, University of Victoria, Bibcode:2008PhDT.......117B
  7. ↑ "UVic Student Wins $100,000 Environmental Prize", UVic News, University of Victoria, 26 November 2007, retrieved 2020-11-15
  8. ↑ "UVic Car 10 Times More Fuel Efficient Than Others", UVic News, University of Victoria, 26 March 2008, retrieved 2020-11-15
  9. 1 2 "Director & Associate Director", Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Toronto Engineering, retrieved 2020-11-15
  10. ↑ Irving, Tyler (23 March 2016), "The future of sustainable energy: Q & A with Professor Aimy Bazylak", University of Toronto Engineering News, retrieved 2020-11-15
  11. 1 2 3 Farrell, Carolyn (8 September 2020), "Professor Aimy Bazylak elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists", University of Toronto Engineering News, retrieved 2020-11-15
  12. ↑ Class of 2020 (PDF), Royal Society of Canada, retrieved 2020-11-15
  13. ↑ "Humboldt and YIN – a win-win-constellation", Young Investigator Network, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, retrieved 2020-11-15
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