Daniel Steingart
Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy; Professor of Chemical Engineering; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Daniel Steingart is the co-director of the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center.
His group studies the systematic behaviors of material deposition, conversion, and dissolution in electrochemical reactors with a focus on energy storage devices. His current research looks to exploit traditional failure mechanisms and unwanted interactions in batteries, turning unwanted behaviors into beneficial mechanisms. Over the last decade, his efforts in this area have been adopted by various industries and have led directly or indirectly to five electrochemical energy-related startup companies, the latest being Feasible, an effort dedicated to exploiting the inherent acoustic responses of closed electrochemical systems.
Steingart joined Columbia Engineering in 2019 from Princeton University, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Earlier, he was an assistant professor in chemical engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006.
Research Areas
- Chemical Reactions and Kinetics
- Thermodynamics
- Electrochemical Engineering
- Energy Storage and Conversion Technology
- Separation Processes
- Advanced Materials
- Renewable Energy
- Energy, Mineral, and Materials
- Energy Storage Systems
- Energy System Economics
- Circular Economy
- Sustainable Energy Systems
- Sustainable Materials
- Mining
Additional Information
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Professional Affiliations
- Professor, Columbia University, 2022 - Current
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
- Independent Director, FREYR Battery, 2022 - Current
- Chief Scientist, Electra, 2021 - 2022
- Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2019 - 2022
- Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
- Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
- Associate Professor, Princeton University, 2017 - 2019
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
- Co Founder, Feasible, 2015 - 2022
- Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2018 - 2019
- Department of Chemistry
- Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2016 - 2019
- Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 2013 - 2017
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
- Assistant Professor, City College of the City University of New York, 2009 - 2013
- Senior Applications Engineer, Sentilla Corporation, 2008 - 2008
- Co Founder, WIT, 2006 - 2008
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Honors & Awards
- Stanley Thompson Professor in Chemical Metallurgy, Columbia University (2019)
- Best Tweet, Princeton University (2018)
- National Academy of Engineering Japan-USA Frontiers of Engineering Speaker (2016)
- National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Organizer (2014)
- National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Invitee (2013)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Young Investigator Award (2012)
- Xerox University Affairs Committee Award (2012)
- Best Poster US-Korea Nanotechnology Conference (2012)
- International Solid-State Circuits Conference Design Award for Picocube (2008)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Fellow (2005)
- National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellow (2005)
- Cubicciotti Student Award - Electrochemical Society (2005)
- Intel Robert Noyce Graduate Fellowship (2003)
- University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Management of Technology Fellowship
- (2002)
- University of California, Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering Jane Lewis Student Graduate
- Fellowship (2000)
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Education
- PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
- ScB, Engineering, Brown University