Aimy Bazylak
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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]
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 a former director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy.[9][10]
