Congratulations to Dr. Nuttaporn Pimpha a senior researcher at NANOTEC Hybrid Nanostructure and Nanocomposites Lab who is the recipient of the 2014 ASEAN-US Prize for Women in Science Award (in the field of water quality research) for her dedication to research on water quality during the Thailand mega-flood of 2011 . The award ceremony will take place on August 25th at the 2014 ASEAN Science and Technology Week in Bogor, Indonesia.
“Access to clean drinking water is a top priority for all nations under normal circumstances and especially during disaster” said Dr. Nuttaporn. ” We were able to develop a mobile clean drinking water filtration unit with nanocomposite filter to turn dirty natural surface water into clean drinking water without chemical treatments”. The technology also caught the interest of BBC Click who filmed it on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the Thailand Mega Flood in 2012 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9747481.stm).
The award supports water quality research aimed at improving the availability of clean and safe drinking water in the ASEAN region and encourages intra-ASEAN and ASEAN-U.S. collaboration on water quality research. This is the first year that the U.S. Department of State and UL (Underwriters Laboratories) has decided to join the ASEAN Committee of Science and Technology to strengthen ASEAN science and technical capacity through an ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women.
