David Denkenberger

Dr. David Denkenberger (also known as 3D) 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 patent-pending expanded microchannel heat exchanger. He is also a research associate at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. He received the National Merit Scholarship, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and is a Penn State distinguished alumnus. He has authored or co-authored over three dozen publications. He has given over 60 technical presentations.

He is close to completing his so-called "ultra-liberal arts education," which consists of taking a course or reading a textbook in all the major fundamental and applied areas, with continuing education of listening to all the TED talks. He signed up to be cryogenically preserved if he dies: he believes if people expected to live much longer, they would care more about problems further in the future. He has walked the talk by eating insects and bacteria. His personal goal is hiking each year as much vertical gain and loss as going from sea level to the top of Mount Everest and back.