Prim6 is elated to announce the addition of Prof. Dr. Ashok Vaseashta to our Advisory Board. Ashok is the Chief Researcher and Chairman for the International Clean Water Institute in Virginia, totaling 18 years as an educator, including 5 years as Director of Nanomaterials Processing and Characterization Lab, and over 6 years as Director of Research for the Advanced Sciences Convergence Institute and Executive Director and VP for Research at the International Clean Water Institute. In addition, he served as visiting professor at the 3 Nano-SAE Research Centre, University of Bucharest in Romania, and visiting scientist at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of Nanoscale Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He strives for innovations by addressing global challenges of the 21st century such as: safety, security, sustainability, and resilience utilizing advanced technological solution-ready platforms. Ashok is a distinguished scholar, receiving his PhD from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg followed by the Kobe postdoctoral fellowship. Shortly after his PhD, he served as professor and researcher at Virginia Tech and Marshall University.
Ashok worked for 9 years within the US government’s S&T administration, serving the U.S. Department of State in two rotations. His primary focuses involved counterterrorism, countermeasures, and security for water, e-m and cybersecurity. Dr. Vaseashta was fortunate to serve as Director of several NATO Advanced Study Institutes and workshops for nearly 15 years.
His fundamental research on nanotechnology has consisted of improving the understanding, design, and performance of nanofibers and sensors/detectors. Primarily for applications such as targeted drug deliveries, wearable electronics, biomarker detection, and toxicity of nano/xenobiotic materials. For security, he has worked on biosecurity, counterterrorism, countering unconventional warfare/hybrid threats, critical-Infrastructure protection, dual-use research concerns, and hybrid threat mitigation such as misinformation.
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Ashok was able to secure over $15M in grants/contracts, in conjunction with organizing several NATO advanced research activities with international partners. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Nanotechnology, and the New York Academy of Sciences, while earning several other awards and fellowships which include the 2004/2005 Distinguished Artist and Scholar award. Having over 270 research publications and 9 books on nanotechnology and the environment, we are beyond excited to welcome him to our team.
