13 Facts About Laura Mersini-Houghton

Laura Mersini-Houghton is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Laura Mersini-Houghton is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy.

Laura Mersini-Houghton argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes.

In 1994, Laura Mersini-Houghton was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park for 8 months.

From 2000 to 2002, after earning her doctorate, Laura Mersini-Houghton was a postdoctoral fellow at the Italian Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

From 2002 to 2003, Laura Mersini-Houghton had a postdoctoral fellowship at Syracuse University.

In January 2004, Laura Mersini-Houghton accepted a position as assistant professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of North Carolina.

Laura Mersini-Houghton was granted tenure in 2008 and promotion to associate professor in 2009 and full professor later.

On 11 October 2010, Laura Mersini-Houghton appeared in a BBC programme entitled What Happened Before the Big Bang, where she propounded her theory of the universe as a wave function on the landscape multiverse.

Laura Mersini-Houghton's predictions were successfully tested recently by the Planck satellite experiment.

In September 2014, Laura Mersini-Houghton claimed to demonstrate mathematically that, given certain assumptions about black hole firewalls, current theories of black hole formation are flawed.

Laura Mersini-Houghton claimed that Hawking radiation causes the star to shed mass at a rate such that it no longer has the density sufficient to create a black hole.

Laura Mersini-Houghton teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Quantum Mechanics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.