Dr. Jason C. White

Dr. Jason C. White is the Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the oldest Agricultural Experiment Station in the country. In addition to managing the agency budget of $13 million and approximately 105 scientific staff, he has a research program of $5.1 million in competitive funding/research focused on food safety, defense, and security. Dr. White is the Managing Editor for the International Journal of Phytoremediation, an Associate Editor for NanoImpact, on the editorial board of Environmental Pollution, and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

He is the Immediate Past President of the International Phytotechnology Society. Dr. White is also an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Experts, and a 2020 Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. Dr. White’s primary research program focuses food safety and security, with specific interests on the use of nanotechnology to decrease crop disease and increase the efficiency of agrichemical delivery, as well as on the broader impacts of nanomaterials on agricultural plants. Dr. White received his Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University in 1997 and has additional appointments at the Harvard University TH Chan School of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and Post University. I am also a Commissioned Official of the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA).

Dr. White has expertise on the use of nanotechnology in agriculture (nano-enabled agriculture), specifically, on the sustainable use of nanoscale micronutrients and other materials to suppress crop disease, increase tolerance to abiotic stress, and enhance food production. He also has expertise in the accumulation and toxicity of nanomaterials to crop species, as well as the fate and disposition of engineered nanomaterials in the environment.  Dr. White has additional experience in the detection of pesticides, toxins, poisons and heavy metals for food safety and food defense. He also has expertise in the phytoremediation of persistent organic pollutants such as PFAS in soil, as well as more generally on the fate of organic contaminants in soils, sediments, and waters.

Secondary Affiliations and Professional Activities:

• Visiting Scientist, Harvard University TH Chan School of Public Health
• Adjunct Faculty, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas El Paso
• Immediate Past President, International Phytotechnology Society (IPS)
• Managing Editor, International Journal of Phytoremediation
• Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Science and Technology
• Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Science and Technology Letters
• Editorial Board, Environmental Pollution
• Editorial Board, NanoImpact
• Member, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO)
• Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
• Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)

• Use of nanotechnology in agriculture (nano-enabled agriculture)
• Use of nanoscale micronutrients and other materials to suppress crop disease, increase tolerance to abiotic stress, and enhance food production
• Detection of pesticides, toxins, poisons and heavy metals for food safety and food defense.
• Phytoremediation of persistent organic pollutants such as PFAS in soil,