ASTM global award for Indian scientist

FRIENDSWOOD (TX) — Dr. Jay Gandhi, regulatory affairs manager at Metrohm here, has received the ASTM International Award of Merit.

This is ASTM’s highest organizational recognition for individual contributions to standards activities, and includes the title of Fellow.
The Indian American executive was honored for his work on the ASTM Committee D19 on Water. He has contributed to the development of several standard test methods and inter-laboratory studies related to inorganic constituents in water.
An ASTM member since 2003, Gandhi serves as D19 second vice chairman, and leads the D19 section on Long-Range Planning. He is also an active participant in several other ASTM groups.
Gandhi has developed several industry- and market-based applications using instrumentation like gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometers during his scientific career.
He was a principal scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center before joining Metrohm as an applications development chemist in 2002. Gandhi assumed his current role in 2012.
He is a graduate of Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, where he received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in chemistry, and his doctorate in analytical chemistry.
He continued his education in the US, earning a master’s in computer science and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometer, at the University of Houston.