Ashok Vaseashta

Ashok VaseashtaAshok Vaseashta currently serves as the CRO, Executive Director of Research and Chair of IRB and ORI. Concurrently, he serves as Chaired Professor of Nanotechnology at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Academician at EMAAS, Senior Strategic Research Advisor for several organizations, and Professor at Riga Technical University and Transylvania University of Brasov. Inspired by nature and guided by societal necessities, he strives for innovations to address global challenges such as environment, human safety and security, and sustainability using advanced technological solution platforms. He is a scholar, dedicated futurist and visionary leader. He received PhD from the Virginia Tech, VA in 1990 followed by Kobe post-doctoral fellowship. He served the U.S. Department of State in two rotations, as strategic S&T advisor and U.S. diplomat. His research interests span nanotechnology, environmental/ ecological science and safety and security. He has authored over 250 research publications, edited/authored eight books on nanotechnology, and presented many keynote and invited lectures worldwide. He serves on the editorial board of several highly reputed international journals.

Publications

Modeling and Monitoring Extreme Hydrometeorological Events
Modeling and Monitoring Extreme Hydrometeorological Events
Carmen Maftei, Radu Muntean, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2024. 338 pages.
In a world experiencing increasingly intense hydrometeorological events driven by climate change, the need for effective solutions is paramount. Modeling and Monitoring Extreme...
Monitoring and Modelling of Extreme Hydrometeorological Events
Monitoring and Modelling of Extreme Hydrometeorological Events
Carmen Maftei, Radu Muntean, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2024. 21 pages.
Hydrometeorological events are becoming more intense and are attributed to climate change from anthropogenic activities and long-term natural meteorological cycles. Such events...
Spatial Trend Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics and Their Responses to Climate Change on Black Sea Coasts, Romania From 2000 to 2021
Spatial Trend Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics and Their Responses to Climate Change on Black Sea Coasts, Romania From 2000 to 2021
Vahid Nasiri, Soroor Rahmanian, Zohreh Hashemi Aslani, Carmen Maftei, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2024. 23 pages.
Based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series of moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer products, meteorological observations, and spatial trend...
Artificial Recharge to the Groundwater Resources Using Rainfall Water Collection: A Case Study of Kabul, Afghanistan
Artificial Recharge to the Groundwater Resources Using Rainfall Water Collection: A Case Study of Kabul, Afghanistan
Hafizullah Rasouli, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2024. 19 pages.
Afghanistan has a very dry climate with most of the land area suffering from the adverse effects of hydroclimatic extremes. The vast amounts of snow and ice in mountain regions...
On the Modeling of Groundwater Features Due to Extreme Arid Conditions in Nimroz Province, Afghanistan
On the Modeling of Groundwater Features Due to Extreme Arid Conditions in Nimroz Province, Afghanistan
Hafizullah Rasouli, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2024. 19 pages.
Due to extreme arid conditions in Afghanistan, it is critical to conduct research by modeling groundwater features. The studies conducted in Nimroz province on the groundwater...
Fundamental and Biomedical Aspects of Redox Processes
Fundamental and Biomedical Aspects of Redox Processes
Gheorghe Duca, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2023. 495 pages.
Redox processes represent a major advancement in water treatment technology and have other applications across environmental and technological contexts. Redox processes must be...
Environmental and Technological Aspects of Redox Processes
Environmental and Technological Aspects of Redox Processes
Gheorghe Duca, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2023. 435 pages.
Environmental and Technological Aspects of Redox Processes is a comprehensive guide to understanding the natural process of electrochemical oxidation/reduction and adsorption...
Molecular Oxygen Activation Mechanisms
Molecular Oxygen Activation Mechanisms
Ashok Vaseashta, Gheorghe Duca, Sergey Olegovich Travin. © 2023. 12 pages.
Molecular oxygen is the greenest of all possible oxidizing agents, but its specific electronic configuration eliminates the possibility of its direct reaction with organic...
Exploring Disruption Trajectories From COVID-19 on Education and the Impact of Policies: Lessons Learned and Path Forward
Exploring Disruption Trajectories From COVID-19 on Education and the Impact of Policies: Lessons Learned and Path Forward
Ashok Vaseashta, Carmen Maftei, Dorin Radu. © 2023. 27 pages.
The world has seen many pandemics; however, COVID-19 provoked global emergencies at an unprecedented scale in all aspects of life. Despite of recent advances in learning...
Handbook of Research on Water Sciences and Society
Handbook of Research on Water Sciences and Society
Ashok Vaseashta, Gheorghe Duca, Sergey Travin. © 2022. 728 pages.
Water supports three basic pillars of our life and survival: safety, security, and sustainability. Hence, it is extremely important to revisit the fundamental characteristics of...
Water Safety, Security, and Sustainability: Emerging Trends and Future Pathways
Water Safety, Security, and Sustainability: Emerging Trends and Future Pathways
Ashok Vaseashta, Gheorghe Duca, Olga Covaliova, Lidia Romanciuc. © 2022. 36 pages.
Access to safe, secure, and sustainable drinking water resources is of paramount importance and an existential challenge worldwide, especially for the scientific community at a...
Future of Water: Challenges and Potential Solution Pathways Using a Nexus of Exponential Technologies and Transdisciplinarity
Future of Water: Challenges and Potential Solution Pathways Using a Nexus of Exponential Technologies and Transdisciplinarity
Ashok Vaseashta. © 2022. 27 pages.
We live in a fancy world of global digitization, decarbonization, artificial intelligence, smart and connected cities using 5/6G, biomimicking, and 3/4D printing living organs...
Groundwater Resource Investigation Using Isotope Technology on River-Sea Systems
Groundwater Resource Investigation Using Isotope Technology on River-Sea Systems
Oleg Bogdevich, Gheorghe Duca, Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff, Adrian Stanica, Aurel Persoiu, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2022. 14 pages.
The chapter presents a review of the case study by the implementation of the stable isotope technology for the evaluation of the water cycle and water resource formation in the...
Water Scarcity Best Practices and Innovation Pathways: Case Study of North Africa
Water Scarcity Best Practices and Innovation Pathways: Case Study of North Africa
Kaltoum Belhassan, Hafizullah Rasouli, Ashok Vaseashta. © 2022. 26 pages.
North Africa is limited in the north by the Mediterranean Sea, in the east by the Red Sea, in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and in the south by the Sahara Desert. North Africa...
Mitigating Unconventional Cyber-Warfare: Scenario of Cyber 9/11
Mitigating Unconventional Cyber-Warfare: Scenario of Cyber 9/11
Ashok Vaseashta, Sherri B. Vaseashta, Eric W. Braman. © 2018. 23 pages.
Advances in S&T coupled with universal access to cyberspace have motivated both state and non-state sponsored actors to new levels in the development of novel and non-traditional...
Mitigating Unconventional Cyber-Warfare: Scenario of Cyber 9/11
Mitigating Unconventional Cyber-Warfare: Scenario of Cyber 9/11
Ashok Vaseashta, Sherri B. Vaseashta, Eric W. Braman. © 2016. 23 pages.
Advances in S&T coupled with universal access to cyberspace have motivated both state and non-state sponsored actors to new levels in the development of novel and non-traditional...