From the smallest sights to the biggest questions

Multi drug resistant bacteria are on the rise. One genus of bacteria is there to battle them all, but it needs a bit of assistance to create the weaponry needed to fight other bacteria. We try to optimize the growth of this bacterium enhance the antibiotic production.

The future of humanity has been privatized. Silicon Valley billionaires are reshaping our collective trajectory through powerful digital technologies: deciding which risks matter, which sacrifices are justified, and what kind of long-term futures are worth pursuing. Their vision now extends beyond markets into guiding policy and philanthropy, influencing technological change, reshaping political priorities, and redirecting resources away from reducing poverty, addressing global inequalities, and tackling climate change. This talk questions who gave them that authority, whose future they're actually protecting, and why shaping humanity’s long-term future cannot be detached from considerations of justice. The end of the world, it turns out, is a moral and political question.

Our cells don’t stay silent when something goes wrong. They release proteins into the bloodstream, carrying special sugar structures called glycans. These sugar tags systematically change in disease, allowing them to serve as biomarkers or measurable signals that reveal what is happening inside the body. By decoding these tags, we can learn whether tissues are healthy or damaged, sometimes long before symptoms appear. In this talk, we explore how these molecular tags change in fibrotic fatty liver disease, and how scientists are learning to decode this hidden code to discover new biomarkers.

Radioactive materials are dangerous but also promising for developing new cancer treatments. One specific radioactive element, Holmium-166, is especially suited for this purpose. However, it is unfortunately quite difficult to produce Holmium-166 in sufficient purity for medicinal applications. My research tries to achieve this purification, by combining chemistry and nuclear processes. I would love to tell you more about this superinteresting research interface during the Pint of Science event!