Daniel Klingenberg, PhD

Daniel J. Klingenberg is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where his research on electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids has led to practical advances in adaptive mechanical systems and rheological control. Klingenberg earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri—Rolla and his doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his dissertation examined the electrostatic polarization mechanism underlying the electrorheological response — explaining from first principles how electric fields cause suspensions of particles to rapidly stiffen into solid-like structures. At the University of Wisconsin—Madison, he is a professor of chemical and biological engineering whose ongoing work spans rheology, colloidal dynamics, and the simulation of complex fluids.