Why Does a UW Mechanical Engineer Study the Human Brain?

In 2016, workers in the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba started reporting concussion-like symptoms – dizziness, headaches and nausea – but with no obvious head trauma.  Since then, similar reports of what American officials call “anomalous health incidents” have emerged with federal civilian and military personnel stationed in Russia, China and Austria, all with no readily apparent cause.

The National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. intelligence community have suggested that one plausible cause might be – strange as it might seem – pulsed microwave radiation beams aimed at U.S. installations. Now, a team of University of Wisconsin researchers, led by Professor Christian Franck, have obtained a grant to investigate how pulsed microwave beams might affect the brain.

Christian Franck is the Bjorn Borgen Professor and H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the director of the UW PANTHER lab, which studies brain trauma.

Professor Franck paid a visit to the 8 O’Clock Buzz studio to describe his research to Buzz host Brian Standing.

Web posting by WORT Producer Nicholas Wootton

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