Advancements in Chemical Looping-Based Clean Hydrogen Production and Metamaterial-Based Hydrogen Storage

Dr. Aziz is currently a Principal Investigator and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. He received B. Eng., M. Eng., and D. Eng. degrees from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2004, 2006, and 2008, respectively, in the field of mechanical engineering. He is the lab head of the Decarbonized Energy and Process Systems Engineering (DeEPS) laboratory at Tohoku University. Previously, he has also served as an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and an Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Kyushu University in 2004, 2006, and 2008, respectively. His general research areas are advanced energy conversion systems. His research and lab (DeEPS, Aziz Lab) focus on research topics related to energy systems modeling, renewable energy utilization, AI and digital twins in energy systems, smart grids, electric vehicles (vehicle-to-grid), batteries, energy materials, and hydrogen production, storage, and utilization. He has published over 370 peer-reviewed articles, 30 books and book chapters, and 200 conference proceedings, with a Scopus h-index of 57 and Google Scholar h-index of 65. He has received several awards, including the Ambassador Award, the Young Researcher Award from the Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress in 2012, the Japan Institute of Energy Award for Encouragement from the Japan Institute of Energy in 2016, the UTokyo Young Excellent Researcher 2019, and the Ambassador Award in 2023.