Daniele Cherniak is an American geochemist known for her work on using particle beams for geochemical analysis on small scales.
[2] In 1983, Cherniak received her undergraduate degree from Union College[3] and went on to earn her Ph.D. in physics at the University at Albany, SUNY in 1990.
[4] As of 2021, she is a research professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[5] and works at the Ion Beam Lab at the University at Albany.
[16] In 2020, she began a project working with scientists Union College on a study of radioactive decay which will improve both disposal of nuclear waste and increase precision of dating material that is billions of years old.
[3] Cherniak runs in ultramarathons[2] and has earned team bronze medals in 1998[3][21] and 2000[22][23] in the IAU 100 km World Championships.