Daniel Attinger joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Columbia University in 2005. He founded the Laboratory for Microscale Transport Phenomena, which currently hosts by two externally-funded Ph.D. students. His research investigates the transport of heat, momentum and energy at the micrometer scale. He focuses particularly on interfacial phenomena in the presence of drops, bubbles and microspheres.
Daniel Attinger is the recipient of the US National Science Foundation Career Award (2005), and the ETH Zurich silver medal (2001). Before joining Columbia University, Daniel Attinger worked for 3 years as an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stony Brook University. He has been a keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Micro/Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Transport, Seoul Korea (2004). He has given invited talks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ETH Zurich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He is a member of the Association for Laboratory Automation and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Listen to Dr. Daniel Attinger presenting his views on research (March 2009) "(click on his name left from the movie panel)"