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Dr. David Denkenberger co-founded and is a director at 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 152 publications (>5100 citations, >60,000 downloads, h-index = 36, 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, Australian National University and University College London.

Poll on De/​Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI

denkenberger9 Aug 2025 7:13 UTC
13 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Graph­ing AI eco­nomic growth rates, or time to Dyson Swarm

denkenberger20 Jun 2025 7:00 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Re­lo­ca­tion triggers

denkenberger14 Jun 2025 6:36 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

ALLFED emer­gency ap­peal: Help us raise $800,000 to avoid cut­ting half of programs

denkenberger16 Apr 2025 21:47 UTC
43 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice for children

22 Dec 2022 14:33 UTC
31 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

denkenberger30 Oct 2017 0:13 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(effective-altruism.com)