Aliza Khurram

Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS

Aliza Khurram is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Trancik lab at the Institute of Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Her research is geared towards highlighting strategies for hydrogen fueling infrastructure development and understanding the costs and benefits of distributed vs. centralized storage of fuels. At IDSS, her work will focus on using energy systems modeling to assess the economic and environmental feasibility of hydrogen-fueled mobility services and identify target areas for innovation and investment.

Aliza received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2020, her S.M. in the same field from MIT in 2017, and her B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Bates College in 2015. As a graduate student, she worked at the intersection of electrochemical energy storage and CO₂conversion. In 2019, she was awarded an MIT Energy Initiative Fellowship for her work on integrated CO₂ capture-electrochemical conversion systems that can achieve simultaneous CO₂ fixation and power delivery.