Ashok Gadgil

Ashok Gadgil (born 1950 in India) Is Director ofthe Energy and Environmental Technologies Division atLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor ofCivil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. He specializes in heat transfer, uiddynamics, and design for development. He also has sub-stantial experience in technical, economic, and policy re-search on energy eciency and its implementation - par-ticularly in developing countries. He is best known forhis work with two developing-world technologies: UVWaterworks (a simple and eective and inexpensive wa-ter disinfection system), and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove(a low-cost stove to that saves fuelwood in internally dis-placed person's camps in Darfur).

1 Education

Dr. Gadgil holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Universityof California, Berkeley and an M.Sc. in Physics fromIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

2 Career

At LBNL Dr. Gadgil is Director of the Environmen-tal Energy Technologies Division, with a sta of ap-proximately 550. Earlier, he led a group of about 20researchers conducting experimental and modeling re-search in indoor airow and pollutant transport. Mostof that work was focused on protecting building occu-pants from the threat of chemical and biological attacks.In recent years, he has worked on ways to inexpensivelyremove arsenic from Bangladesh drinking water, and onimproving cookstoves for Darfur (Sudan) refugees.Concurrently, Dr. Gadgil is Professor of EnvironmentalEngineering at University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Gadgil has substantial experience in technical, eco-nomic, and policy research on energy eciency and itsimplementation - particularly in developing countries. Hehas authored or co-authored more than 90 journal papers,and more than 100 conference papers.In 1998 and again in 2006, Dr. Gadgil was invited by theSmithsonian Institutions Lemelson Center for the Studyof Invention and Innovation to speak at the National Mu-seum of American History about his life and work.

3 Awards (Selected List) Inducted in National Inventors Hall of Fame(2014)[1]

Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize forWaterCreativity categoryteam award (2013)

Inducted in the US National Academy of Engineer-ing (2013)

Winner of The Tech Awards in Economic Develop-ment category, team award for the Berkeley-DarfurStove (2013)

Alumni Leadership Award by the IIT KanpurAlumni Association of Silicon Valley (2013)

Lemelson-MIT Prize Award for Global Innovation(2012)

Zayed Future Energy Prize Individual category(2012)

European Inventor Award with Vikas Garudawarded by the European Patent Oce [2] awardedby the European Patent Oce (2011)

Heinz Award (2009)[3]

Breakthrough Award by Popular MechanicsforBerkeley-Darfur Stove (2007)

Winner of The Tech Awards in Health category,Laureate for UVWaterworks (2004)

World Technology Award for Energy (2002) Popular Sciencebest of what is new (1996) Discover Award for UVWaterworks, (1996) Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environ-ment (1991)

4 UV WaterworksUV Waterworks uses the UV light emitted by alow-pressure mercury discharge (similar to that in auorescent lamp) to disinfect drinking water. Eectivedisinfection at aordable cost is the primary and mostimportant feature of UVWaterworksallowing an entire

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system (including costs of pumps, lters, tanks, armpits,consumables, and employee salaries for operation) to selldrinking water at about 2 cents US for 12 liters even indeep rural areas, where personal incomes are commonlyless than $1 US per day.This business model, developed and implemented byWa-terHealth International , makes safe drinking water af-fordable and accessible to even poor communities in de-veloping countries. For UV Waterworks, Dr. Gadgil re-ceived the Discover Award in 1996 for the most signif-icant environmental invention of the year, as well as thePopular Science Award for Best ofWhat is New - 1996.

5 Darfur Stoves ProjectThe Darfur Stoves Project seeks to protect Darfuriwomen by providing themwith specially developed stoveswhich require less rewood, hence decreasing womensexposure to violence while collecting rewood and theirneed to trade food rations for fuel. Dr. Gadgil is a co-Founder and serves as Chair of this non-prot organiza-tion.The Darfur Stoves Project collaborates with interna-tional organizations such as Oxfam America and the Su-danese organization, Sustainable Action Group (SAG).Till early-2014 the Darfur Stoves Project has producedand distributed more than 35,000 stoves in the post-conict region of Darfur, Sudan.The Darfur Stoves Project is the rst initiative of the non-prot organization, Potential Energy. Potential Energyenvisions a world where technology improves the lives ofeveryone equitably. Potential Energys mission is to adaptand scale technologies that improve lives in developingcountries.

6 FilmAshok is featured in Irena Salina's feature documentaryFlow: For Love of Water (2008) and Michael Apted'saward winning 1999 documentary "Me and Isaac New-ton".

7 ReferencesAs of April 2014, this article is derived in whole or in partfrom the subjects ocial CV. The copyright holder haslicensed the content utilized under CC-By-SA and GFDL.All relevant terms must be followed.

[1] National Inventors Hall of Fame, Ashok Gadgil prole.[2] Invention: UV water disinfection device[3] The 15th Heinz Awards, Ashok Gadgil prole.

8 External links Personal Website Courage: Ashok Gadgil. Short biography fromMITPress. Text adapted from Inventing Modern Amer-ica.

Prototype Online: Inventive Voices podcast featur-ing a two-part interview with Ashok Gadgil - Fromthe Smithsonians Lemelson Center for the Study ofInvention and Innovation website.

Potential Energy Website Ashok Gadgil European Inventor Award Winner

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