Daniel Steingart

Daniel Steingart is Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy and professor of Chemical Engineering and Climate, and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia Engineering. He is also 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. Steingart’s current research looks to exploit traditional failure mechanisms and unwanted interactions in batteries, turning unwanted behaviors into beneficial mechanisms. Over the past decade, his research has been adopted by various industries and have led directly or indirectly to five electrochemical energy–related startup companies; the latest is Liminal Insights (formerly 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.