Gadgil Lab for Energy & Water Research | UC Berkeley

2023 Open Research Positions Soon!

Pending final funding approval, we will have 2 openings for research positions coming soon! If interested in learning, please contact us to be the first to know the job numbers on the Berkeley Jobs site.

Last Updated: 5/30/2023
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Arsenic-Free Bangladesh

Over 60 million people in Bangladesh and West Bengal drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Although the WHO's recommended maximum limit for arsenic in drinking water is 10 ppb, the arsenic levels in Bangladesh, in some cases, exceed 1000 ppb. Forty thousand people in Bangladesh are already showing signs of arsenic poisoning, in what is rightly called the largest mass poisoning of a human population in history.

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Making Lead Pipes Safe Again

More than 18 million people in the US are currently at risk of suffering from lead poisoning due to the high amounts of lead in their drinking water.

The Gadgil lab is developing a fast and cost-effective technology to solve this problem, which we termed ALPS (Accelerated Lead Pipe Scalebuildup), an electrochemical method that accelerates the development of a protective scale in lead pipes.
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Capacitive Deionization

CDI operates by flowing water between two parallel-plate electrodes, each with large surface area. A small voltage is applied to these plates, forming an electric field through the water. Ions in solution drift toward the plates, where they are held in the electrical double-layers at the solid-liquid boundary. When the electrode surfaces become saturated with ions, the flow is paused and the voltages are reversed, driving the ions back into solution.

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Cookstove Projects

More than half of the world's population cook their food indoors using open fires or rudimentary cookstoves. Indoor burning of solid fuels releases toxic pollutants including particulate matter and carbon monoxide. These harmful cooking practices cause an estimated 4 million premature deaths annually.

Learn how Dr. Ashok Gadgil and his team have designed, tested, and evaluated improved cookstoves.
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Our Mission

The Mission of The Gadgil Lab is to perform research and engineering efforts towards the alleviation of poverty and human suffering. Through our projects in the developing world we make our engineering skill, passion, and talent manifest.