Associate Research Scientist
Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy
Christoph Meinrenken is Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute (working at the Lenfest Center), and adjunct faculty in the department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. Christoph holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University (1996) and PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany (2001), where he worked with Bert Sakmann on synaptic transmission. After a subsequent PostDoc position at the Max Planck Institute, and before joining Columbia University in 2009, Christoph worked for 6 years in management consulting, focusing on financial engineering, risk management, and specialized finance.