David Warsinger
Warsinger Water Lab
Scientist, Teacher, Inventor, Entrepreneur
David is a scientist, teacher, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is motivated by what he sees as the biggest problems facing humanity: the nexus of energy, water, and food. David is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering; his lab is in the Birck Nanotechnology Center. David completed his PhD at MIT with Professor John Lienhard, and did Postdoctoral work with Lienhard at MIT, Vecitis at Harvard (breifly), and with Menachem Elimelech and Jaehong Kim at Yale. Mentoring students is a priority for David, including for undergrad and graduate students. David is a coauthor of over 30 published conference and journal papers, and 16 patent applications. David is involved with advising, fundraising for, or cofounding several startup companies in the fields of water treatment and food refrigeration.