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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 134 publications (>4000 citations, >50,000 downloads, h-index = 32, 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 200 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.

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_Cassidy1 Dec 2023 0:47 UTC
61 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

In­fo­graph­ics of the Re­port food se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in the event of an Abrupt Re­duc­tion of Sun­light Sce­nario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC31 Jul 2023 19:36 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search find­ings pre­sen­ta­tion: “Food se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)”.

Roberto Tinoco27 Apr 2023 22:48 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­port: Food Se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in the event of an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC27 Apr 2023 21:00 UTC
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

2022 ALLFED highlights

Ross_Tieman28 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC
85 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Mul­ti­ple high-im­pact PhD stu­dent positions

Denkenberger19 Nov 2022 0:02 UTC
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Graph of % of tasks AI is su­per­hu­man at?

Denkenberger15 Nov 2022 5:59 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2021 ALLFED Highlights

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2021 15:24 UTC
45 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

ALLFED 2020 Highlights

AronM19 Nov 2020 22:06 UTC
51 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble way of re­duc­ing great power war prob­a­bil­ity?

Denkenberger28 Nov 2019 4:27 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

ALLFED 2019 An­nual Re­port and Fundrais­ing Appeal

AronM23 Nov 2019 2:05 UTC
42 points
12 comments22 min readEA link

Amer­i­cans give ~4%, not 2%

Denkenberger3 Nov 2019 19:10 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­mote lo­cal group lead­ers?

Denkenberger13 Oct 2019 21:43 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

David Denken­berger: Loss of In­dus­trial Civ­i­liza­tion and Re­cov­ery (Work­shop)

Denkenberger19 Feb 2019 15:58 UTC
27 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

Alli­ance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) Progress Re­port & Giv­ing Tues­day Appeal

Denkenberger21 Nov 2018 5:20 UTC
21 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Foods for Global Catas­tro­phes: Even Bet­ter than Be­fore?

Denkenberger19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC
29 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

[Paper] In­ter­ven­tions that May Prevent or Mol­lify Su­per­vol­canic Eruptions

Denkenberger15 Jan 2018 21:46 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

How you can save ex­pected lives for $0.20-$400 each and re­duce X risk

Denkenberger27 Nov 2017 2:23 UTC
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger29 Oct 2017 23:28 UTC
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

Fu­tures of al­tru­ism spe­cial is­sue?

Denkenberger18 Dec 2016 19:16 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link