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Denkenberger🔸

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Dr. David Denkenberger co-founded and directs the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED.info) and donates half his income to it. He received his B.S. from Penn State in Engineering Science, his masters 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 an expanded microchannel heat exchanger, which he patented. He is an associate professor at the University of Canterbury in mechanical engineering. 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. He has authored or co-authored 143 publications (>4800 citations, >50,000 downloads, h-index = 36, second most prolific author in the existential/​global catastrophic risk field), including the book Feeding Everyone no Matter What: Managing Food Security after Global Catastrophe. His food work has been featured in over 25 countries, over 300 articles, including Science, Vox, Business Insider, Wikipedia, Deutchlandfunk (German Public Radio online), Discovery Channel Online News, Gizmodo, Phys.org, and Science Daily. He has given interviews on 80,000 Hours podcast (here and here) and Estonian Public Radio, WGBH Radio, Boston, and WCAI Radio on Cape Cod, USA. He has given over 80 external presentations, including ones on food at Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Cornell University, University of California Los Angeles, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, Imperial College, and University College London.

Should we be spend­ing no less on al­ter­nate foods than AI now?

Denkenberger🔸Oct 29, 2017, 11:28 PM
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

Fu­tures of al­tru­ism spe­cial is­sue?

Denkenberger🔸Dec 18, 2016, 7:16 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Sav­ing ex­pected lives at $10 apiece?

Denkenberger🔸Dec 14, 2016, 3:38 PM
15 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Ad­vice Wanted on Ex­pand­ing an EA Project

Denkenberger🔸Apr 23, 2016, 11:20 PM
4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Es­say Com­pe­ti­tion on Prepa­ra­tion for Global Food Catastrophes

Denkenberger🔸Mar 17, 2016, 1:49 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­vest­ment op­por­tu­nity for the risk neutral

Denkenberger🔸Jan 25, 2016, 3:29 PM
−2 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

My Cause Selec­tion: Dave Denkenberger

Denkenberger🔸Aug 16, 2015, 3:06 PM
13 points
7 comments3 min readEA link