Fikile Brushett

Short Bio:

Fikile Brushett is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he presently holds the Raymond A. & Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Chair. He obtained his B.S.E. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. In 2010, he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the supervision of Professor Paul J.A. Kenis. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrochemical Energy Storage group at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), under the supervision of Dr. Jack Vaughey. In 2013, he joined MIT where he established a research group focused on accelerating the development of transformative electrochemical energy systems with an overarching goal of enabling sustainable technologies. He is the Lead Technologist for the Grid Storage Arc in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a DOE-funded Energy Innovation Hub.