Lecturers in the course
The lectures will be given by internationally known experts in the field of Monte Carlo Simulations, Phantom Development and Dosimetry of ionizing radiation.
Wesley Bolch - University of Florida (US)
Information about Professor Wesley Bolch can be found here.
Bastian Breustedt - KIT (Germany)
Bastian Breustedt is head of the radioanalytical laboratories, which also operate an in-vivo counting laboratory. His research interests since 20 years cover all aspects of internal dosimtery including the application of Monte Carlo Simulations. He is chairman of EURADOS WG7 on internal dosimetry.
David Broggio - IRSN (France)
David Broggio is the head of the Internal Dose Assessment Laboratory of IRSN, France.
His research and technical interests cover in vivo monitoring, numerical calibration with Monte-Carlo calculations and the development of 3D human models for applications in radiation protection and medical physics.
Jonthan Eakins - PHE (UK)
Over 13 years' experience in Monte Carlo modelling, with a focus on the MCNP family of codes
Primary research interests in external dosimetry for ionizing radiation protection. Topics include dosemeter and instrument design, shielding applications, emergency dosimetry, cosmic ray dosimetry, workplace fields, and 'hot particle' research.
Over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals
Paolo Ferrari - ENEA (Italy)
Physicist, Medical Physic Expert, Ph.D, researcher at the ENEA, Radiation Protection Institute, I started working with MCNP Monte Carlo code and anthropomorphic models in 1998 both for radiation quantities conversion coefficients calculation and for whole body counters calibration. I took part to the ORAMED project and I worked as deputy responsible in our secondary standard dosimetric lab for ionizing radiation. I co-authored more than 50 papers in radiation protection and radiation dosimetry field.
Josè-Maria Gomez Ros - CIEMAT (Spain)
MSc, PhD in Physics, MSc in Mathematics. Thirty years of experience in thermoluminescence and radiation dosimetry (in particular Monte Carlo simulation and neutron dosimetry). Presently Head of the Division for Radiological Environment and the Unit of Radiation Dosimetry in CIEMAT. Member of EURADOS WG6: computational dosimetry. Co-author of 121 papers published en scientific journals and 104 contributions to international conferences.
Susanna Guatelli - University of Wollongong (Australia)
Dr. Susanna Guatelli is a researcher of the Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia, with more than 15 years’ experience in the application of the Geant4 Monte Carlo Toolkit to Medical Physics. Since 2002 she contributes to extend the Geant4 functionality to medical physics applications. Information abour Dr. Susanna Guatelli can be found here.
Christelle Huet - IRSN (France)
Christelle Huet currently works at the LDRI - Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN). Christelle does research in Experimental Physics, Medical Physics and Computational Physics. Their current project is 'Doses delivered to healthy tissues by advanced radiotherapy techniques.' (Info from ResearchGate Platform)
Debora Leone - KTE (Germany)
Debora Leone is a physicist who worked after her PhD in high energy physis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on Monte Carlo Simulations for Radiation Protection Applications. Her works included modeling of detectors, calibration of in-vivo counters and the calculation of dose conversion coefficients. Now she is working as engineer in KTE on decomissioning projects.
Olivier van Hoey - SCK-CEN (Belgium)
Olivier Van Hoey obtained his Master degree in Physics at Ghent University in Belgium. Afterwards he did a PhD in Engineering Physics at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN in Mol. Currently, he is working as a researcher in the dosimetry department of SCK•CEN. His main fields of expertise are personal dosimetry, neutron dosimetry, accident dosimetry and Monte Carlo simulation.
Thomas Vrba - CTU (Czech Republic)
Tomas Vrba currently works at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI), Czech Technical University in Prague. Tomas does research in Science Education and Medical Physics. Their current project is 'CAThyMARA: Child and Adult Thyroid Monitoring After Reactor Accident (OPERRA Project number 604984). (Info taken from ResearchGate Platform)
Maria Zankl - HMGU (Germany)
Maria Zankl is a research associate at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. She holds a diploma in mathematics from the Technical University Munich. She has (co-) authored approximately 250 publications. Her main professional interests are the construction of models of the human body for radiation transport calculations and the calculation of organ dose conversion coefficients. She is the main developer of the HMGU family of voxel phantoms and of the ICRP/ICRU Adult Reference Computational Phantoms.