Martin Bazant is an expert in applied mathematics and engineering physics.

His research focuses on transport phenomena in microfluidics and electrochemical systems, with an eye toward applications in energy storage, water purification and lab-on-a-chip technology.

Jeff Gore's laboratory studies evolutionary dynamics by combining microbial experiments with ideas from physics, mathematics and economics.

As a Pappalardo Fellow in the department, he used approaches from game theory to understand how yeast cells cooperate to grow on the sugar sucrose, yielding insight into the conditions required for the evolution of cooperative behaviors.

Gore received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Hertz Fellow, where he developed new techniques to manipulate individual biological molecules such as DNA. Over the years, Gore’s biophysics research has appeared in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Pedro Reis is an assistant professor in a dual appointment between the departments of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT.