Dr. Paul L. Edmiston is the Theron and Dorothy Peterson Professor of Chemistry at the College of Wooster (Ohio). He is also Chief Science Officer and Founder of ABS Materials Inc. Paul has invented numerous versions of swellable glass materials (Osorb®) capable of capturing organic solvents, explosives, pesticides and related agents from water. Between 2008-2010 Dr. Edmiston was a Research Fellow at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where collaborated with members of the Eletro-Optical Systems Laboratory and the Nanotechnology Research Center to develop sensors used for TNT detection using integrated optical waveguide interferometry.
Dr. Edmiston received his B.S. in chemistry from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Arizona. He has received over $3 million in externally funded grants including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 and a NSF RAPID grant developing tools to treat seawater in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon accident. Paul and his co-workers have also developed Osorb which encapsulate nanoscale metal particles for in situ and ex situ groundwater remediation funded by the National Science Foundation.