Director & Co-founder, an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
David is a dedicated philanthropist and donates half his income to ALLFED.
Dr. David Denkenberger is an associate professor at University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in mechanical engineering. Prior to this, he taught mechanical engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for four years, taught architectural engineering at Tennessee State University in Nashville for three years, and consulted on energy efficiency for five years in Durango, Colorado.
David received his B.S. from Penn State in Engineering Science, his M.S.E. from Princeton in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Building Systems Program. His dissertation was on his patented expanded microchannel heat exchanger. He received the National Merit Scholarship, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is a Penn State distinguished alumnus, and is a registered professional engineer.
David has authored or co-authored over 155 publications including the book Feeding Everyone no Matter What: Managing Food Security after Global Catastrophe. He is the most prolific author in the existential/global catastrophic risk field with over 5,900 citations, over 60,000 downloads and h-index = 39 (39 papers with at least 39 citations each).
David has given over 100 external presentations, including ones on food at Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Cornell University, Australian National University, University of California Los Angeles, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, Imperial College, University of California Berkeley, and University College London.
David’s food resilience work has been featured in over 25 countries, in over 300 articles, including Science, Vox, Business Insider, Deutchlandfunk (German Public Radio online), Discovery Channel Online News, Gizmodo, Phys.org, and Science Daily. He has given interviews on 80,000 Hours podcast and Estonian Public Radio, WGBH Radio, Boston, and WCAI Radio on Cape Cod, USA.
