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Daniel Watts, PhD, is the Panasonic Endowed Chair of Sustainability and director of the Material Characterization Laboratory at NJIT. Since 2000, Watts has served as executive director of the Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science.  At NJIT, Watts established and Developed the Emission Reduction Research Center based on earlier activity for the Air Emission Reduction Center; developed the Concept of Integrated Pollution Prevention Initiative; worked to obtain funding; and developed teams for technology development, technical assistance, curriculum modification, and industrial management studies.

Through interaction with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, he developed the concept and support for the New Jersey Technical Assistance Program for Industrial Pollution Prevention. In addition, he developed a research partnership with the U.S. Army Industrial Ecology Center, leading to the funding of the Sustainable Green Manufacturing Initiative.

Recent publications include Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments : A Practical Guide; ACS Taskforce on Laboratory Waste Management;  Laboratory Waste Management  A Guidebook (Washington, DC, American Chemical Society, 1994).

Watts holds a PhD in organic chemistry (1969) from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (Dissertation: The Chemical Constituents of Two Podocarpus Species), an AM in botany (1968) from Indiana University; and a BSc in chemistry/botany from Ohio State University.