Fikile R Brushett

Fikile R. Brushett is an American chemical engineer and researcher known for his contributions to electrochemical energy storage and sustainable energy technologies.

Education Fikile Brushett received a B.S.E. degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. In 2009, he received a M.S. degree in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where, in 2010, he finished with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering as well. After he trained at the Argonne National Laboratory in the Electrochemical Energy Storage Group as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow from 2010-2012.

Brushett's research focuses on electrochemical energy storage systems, with an emphasis on redox flow batteries and sustainable energy solutions.

Awards and honors Brushett was awarded a GEM Fellowship for Ph.D. in Engineering in 2006. In 2010, he was awarded a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2014 and 2017, Brushett was awarded the C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award at MIT. He was awarded the Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage and the Chemical and Engineering News Talented 12 Chemistry resulting in the nickname "Baron of Batteries". In 2018 he earned the U.S. Department of Energy, Secretary of Energy Achievement Award. In the same year, Brushett gained the ECS Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award. In 2020, he was awarded the NOBCChE Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Research. In 2021, Brushett was awarded the NESACS/NENOBCChE Henry A. Hill Lecturership. In 2022, he was awarded the Allan P. Colburn Award.