Hadley Debross, PhD, was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award in the Biological Sciences Division for her groundbreaking work in Medical Physics and was awarded the Program Award for Medical Physics. Her dissertation, Metal Mapping with X-Ray Fluorescence Emission Tomography, focuses on the development of novel imaging geometries and reconstruction algorithms for a new XFET system advancing the precision and potential of trace metal detection in biological tissues.
Hadley joined the Graduate Program in Medical Physics (GPMP) at the University of Chicago in 2019, after earning her BS in Physics from the University of Dayton in 2018. As an undergraduate and post-baccalaureate researcher, she worked with the Air Force Research Laboratory on the optimization of titanium nitride, an emerging plasmonic material.
At UChicago, Hadley conducted her doctoral research under the mentorship of Dr. Patrick La Rivière. Together, they pushed the frontiers of x-ray imaging by engineering more accurate and efficient methods for mapping metals within the body technology that holds promise for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Hadley has will continue her training at The Ohio State University as a Medical Physics Resident.