Kazuki Tojo | Aerospace Propulsion Researcher

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

Coalescence of Viscoelastic Sessile Drops: The Small and Large Contact Angle Limits

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2026.
B.S.E. Thesis: Thermal Behaviour of a Lithium Self-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster

Princeton University, 2024.
M.Eng. Thesis: Gas Sensing for Cooling and Combustion using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

University of Oxford, 2023.

Awards

Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Graduate Scholar — MIT, 2024–present.
Magna Cum Laude — Princeton University, 2024.
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society — Princeton University, 2024.
Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society — Princeton University, 2023.
M.Eng. Thesis First-Class Honours — University of Oxford, 2023.
Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Undergraduate Scholar — Princeton University, 2020–2024.

Selected publications

Coalescence of Viscoelastic Sessile Drops: The Small and Large Contact Angle Limits

B.S.E. Thesis: Thermal Behaviour of a Lithium Self-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster

M.Eng. Thesis: Gas Sensing for Cooling and Combustion using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

Awards