Betar Gallant

American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Betar Gallant is currently the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Dr. Gallant completed her SB (‘08), SM (‘10) and PhD (‘13) degrees in this department, where her doctoral research focused on nonaqueous oxygen electrochemistry for lithium-air batteries. After graduating, Dr. Gallant was a Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, where she conducted research into architectures for solar fuel-generating electrochemical devices along with other collaborative efforts on metal-gas batteries. As a faculty member at MIT, Dr. Gallant leads the Energy and Gas Conversion Laboratory, which is developing insights into new reaction mechanisms that underpin advanced energy conversion and greenhouse gas mitigation technologies, with a particular emphasis on integration of electrochemistry with CO2 capture and storage. In 2016, Dr. Gallant was named an MIT Bose Fellow for her original work on fluorinated gas electrochemistry. Additional select recognitions include an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2019), the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching at MIT (2019), and a Scialog Fellowship in Energy Storage (2019) and in Negative Emissions Science (2020) among others.