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Aimy Bazylak

Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

BIO

Prof. Aimy Bazylak is the Canada Research Chair in Thermofluids for Clean Energy and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the U of T. In 2011, she was awarded the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and she received the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2012. From 2015-2018, she served as the Director of the U of T Institute for Sustainable Energy. In 2015 she was named an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), and in 2019 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2020, she was named a Helmholtz International Fellow (Germany), was awarded the U of T McLean Award, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. She was also recently elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for excellence in engineering and services to the profession and to society.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaAug 2008 - Jun 2013
  • Associate Director at the Institute for Sustainable Energy
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaFeb 2013 - Jun 2015
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2013 - Jun 2018
  • Director at Institute for Sustainable Energy
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2015 - Jun 2018
  • Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaApr 2014 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2018 - present
  • Associate Chair, Research, Division of Engineering Science
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaSep 2019 - present

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics
    University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
  • Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
    University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering
    University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

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INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Acceleration Consortium
  • Medicine by Design (MbD)
  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)