Katja Lindenberg

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Katja Lindenberg (born 1941)[1] is an Ecuadorian-American theoretical chemical physicist whose research concerns statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and quantum thermodynamics. She is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

Lindenberg is originally from Ecuador.[2] She graduated from Alfred University in 1962, and completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1967. After postdoctoral research at the University of Rochester, she joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 1969.[3] She retired in 2019.[4]

Contributions

With Bruce J. West, Lindenberg authored the book The Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Open and Closed Systems (Wiley/VCH, 1990).[5] Her research has also studied chemical transport on fractal media.[6]

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