Ashok Gadgil

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Gadgil Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair and Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley. He also has been Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Gadgil is a Faculty Senior Scientist, and former Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (2009-2015). From 2012 to 2022, Gadgil was the Faculty Director of the Development Impact Lab at UC Berkeley. He has taught graduate courses at UC Berkeley since 2006 addressing topics such as “Design for Sustainable Communities,” and “Technology and Sustainability”.

Gadgil has served as editor of the journal Annual Review of Environment and Resources since 2009. Gadgil and Paul Gertler were the founding editors of the Open Access journal Development Engineering, first published by Elsevier in 2016.

In 1998 and again in 2006, Gadgil was invited by the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation to speak at the National Museum of American History about his life and work.

In September 2022, Springer published an Open Access graduate-level textbook Co-Edited by Gadgil, Introduction to Development Engineering: A Framework with Applications from the Field, freely downloadable from the Springer website.

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• 2022, Inaugural Laureate of the Zuckerberg Water Prize for "outstanding leadership, vision, innovation, and lasting global impact in the field of Water."
• 2020, Honorable Mention, Patents for Humanity, United States Patent and Trademark Office, with Vi Rapp, for inventing an infant-warming device that uses a phase-change material to indicate temperature.
• 2017, Curry Stone Design Prize. Inducted in the "Social Design Honoree Circle" of honorees of the Curry Stone Foundation, for design under resource scarcity.
• 2016, R&D100 Award, R&D Magazine, for Sustainable and Affordable Fluoride Removal (SAFR) treatment of groundwater. The R&D100 Awards, called the “Oscars of Industrial Innovation”, are an international annual competition and celebrate the 100 top technology advances of the past year.
• 2015, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award of the American Physical Society for "For applying physics to a variety of social problems and developing sustainable energy, environmental and public health technologies, as well as demonstrating how these could be scaled up, thus contributing to improved life for millions."
• 2015, Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
• 2014, Inducted in National Inventors Hall of Fame
• 2013, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water—Creativity category—team award
• 2013, Inducted in the US National Academy of Engineering
• 2013, Laureate (Economic Development), The Tech Awards, Team award for the Berkeley-Darfur Stove
• 2012, Lemelson-MIT Prize Award for Global Innovation
• 2012, Zayed Sustainability Prize Individual category
• 2011. European Inventor Award with Vikas Garud, European Patent Office, for UV water disinfection device
• 2009, The 15th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment
• 2007, Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics—for Berkeley-Darfur Stove
• 2004. Laureate (Health), The Tech Awards, for UVWaterworks
• 2001, Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 1996, "Best of What's New" Award, Popular Science magazine, for UV Waterworks
• 1996, Discover Award, Discover magazine for UVWaterworks
• 1991, Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts