Upcoming Doctoral Dissertations

"Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) is an industrial chemical that has been widely used for decades in products such as stain repellents, firefighting foams, and food packaging. Its chemically inert and highly stable nature prevents it from breaking down efficiently in the environment or in human tissues, leading to significant bioaccumulation. As a result of this persistence, PFOS is widely detected in human serum. Growing evidence links PFOS exposure to health problems such as infertility, pregnancy complications, and certain cancers, but how it affects the reproductive system at the cellular level remains poorly understood." Read more

"There has been a great amount of speculation on how gravity works on a quantum level, but very little experimental input. Recently, we have shown that single gravitons, the expected quantum particle of gravity, can be detected. Here I will summarize how single gravitons can be detected and discuss how this result facilitates the study of gravitational waves and the exploration of quantum gravity, inspired by historical tests probing the quantization of light." Read more