Ashutosh Goel
Research Interests
• Composition – Structure – Property Relationships in Oxide Glasses
• Nuclear Waste Immobilization
• Glasses and Ceramics in Healthcare
Professional Affiliations
• Member, American Ceramic Society
• Vice-Chair, Bioceramics Division, American Ceramic Society
• Chairperson, TC05-Hazardous Waste Vitrification, International Commission on Glass
• Member, TC04-Glasses in Healthcare, International Commission on Glass
Education
• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Averio, Portugal, 2009
• M.S., Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, India, 2004
• B.S., Physics, Guru, Nanak Dev University, India
Summary
Dr. Ashutosh Goel earned his B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. (Hons.) in Physics from Guru Nanak Dev University, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2009. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University as a faculty member in 2014.
Before joining Rutgers, Dr. Goel worked as a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, and Senior Research Scientist specializing in Optical Fibers at Sterlite Technologies Ltd. in Aurangabad, India.
Dr. Goel has authored or co-authored over 100 research articles in leading international journals and holds several U.S. patents. He serves as an Associate Editor for both the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Glass Science. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and actively reviews for numerous scientific journals.
Additionally, Dr. Goel chairs the International Commission on Glass (ICG) Technical Committee on Hazardous Waste Vitrification (TC05) and is a member of the Technical Committee on Glasses in Healthcare (TC04). His impactful contributions to glass science and engineering have been recognized with prestigious honors, including the 2017 Vittorio Gottardi Prize (ICG), the 2021 W.H. Zachariasen Prize (Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids), and the 2023 Tadashi Kokubo Award (American Ceramic Society).