Kazuki Tojo
Kazuki Tojo is an AeroAstro S.M.-Ph.D. student in the MIT Gas Turbine Lab, investigating compressor rotating stall under Professor Ed Greitzer. His interests lie in the thermofluids of aerospace propulsion. He was previously at Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he worked on MEMS gas sensing through heat transfer, electric propulsion (MPDT), and drop coalescence.
Selected publications
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Coalescence of Viscoelastic Sessile Drops: The Small and Large Contact Angle Limits
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2026.
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B.S.E. Thesis: Thermal Behaviour of a Lithium Self-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
Princeton University, 2024.
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M.Eng. Thesis: Gas Sensing for Cooling and Combustion using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
University of Oxford, 2023.
Awards
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Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Graduate Scholar
MIT, 2024–present.
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Magna Cum Laude
Princeton University, 2024.
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Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Princeton University, 2024.
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Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society
Princeton University, 2023.
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M.Eng. Thesis First-Class Honours
University of Oxford, 2023.
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Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Undergraduate Scholar
Princeton University, 2020–2024.