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Helbling Research Group

aquatic science and technology

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May 24, 2025

Congratulations to all who graduated in Spring 2025! The Helbling Research Group congratulates our graduating group members (clockwise from top left): Bailey (BS in...

May 20, 2025

Fanshu was the recipient of the 2025 AEESP MS Thesis Award for her thesis titled, "Biotransformation of polyfluoroalkyl substances in bioreactors seeded with wastewater microbial...

May 16, 2025

Congratulations Amber on an excellent MS thesis and defense! Amber made significant contributions to our continued discovery of novel adsorbents to remove PFASs from water and...

May 16, 2025

Congratulations Susannah on an excellent MS thesis and defense! Susannah did important work to characterize the adsorption of PFASs onto a variety of minerals that can be found...

May 15, 2025

Congratulations Nayantara on an excellent PhD dissertation and defense! Nayantara developed machine learning-based forensics tools to enable source tracking of PFASs in the...

January 19, 2025

We are excited to welcome Teng Zeng to the HRG! Teng will be spending part of his sabbatical leave with us starting in January 2025 We are looking forward to a fruitful...

December 18, 2024

Congratulations to Fanshu on this excellent paper resulting from work done as part of her Master's thesis! In this study, Fanshu conducted experiments to induce the...

December 8, 2024

Congratulations to Stephanie on leading this new publication on wastewater microbial community functioning! In this study, Stephanie characterized nontarget chemical features...

September 19, 2024

We are excited to welcome Liqing Yan as a postdoc and Vie Villafuerte as a PhD student! Liqing completed her PhD at Georgia Tech and has joined the HRG as a postdoc working on...

July 20, 2024

Past and present HRG converged on Long Beach, California in July to share progress in our respective SERDP and ESTCP projects It was a great to see everyone in one place! (Left...

June 12, 2024

Congratulations to Richard for passing his Q Exam – an important milestone on the pathway to a...

June 12, 2024

Jieyuan's paper describing a systematic exploration of the way specific inorganic ions and humic acid effect PFAS adsorption on activated carbon (AC), anion exchange resins (AER),...