Ashok Gadgil
Faculty Director
Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley, CA
Canada
Biography
Dr. Gadgil holds concurrent appointment on the UC Berkeley Campus as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and at LBNL as Faculty Senior Scientist. At UC Berkeley, Dr. Gadgil is a Distinguished Chair Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation in CEE. He is the PI and Faculty Director of Development Impact Lab (DIL.berkeley.edu) and of the Clean Energy Research Center for Water Energy Technologies (CERC-WET.berkeley.edu). At LBNL Dr. Gadgil is a Senior Faculty Scientist in the Energy Technologies Area. He has a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley. His expertise ranges from computational fluid dynamics of indoor air and pollutant flows, simulation of entry and transport of indoor radon, building energy efficiency, and methods to treat drinking water to make it potable. He has more than 105 refereed archival journal papers, 150 conference papers, and several patents.
Research Interest
fluid dynamics, energy efficiency in buildings
