Invited Speakers

Filip Vanhavere

Belgium

Filip Vanhavere is an accomplished nuclear engineer with a PhD in applied physics. He has extensive experience as the head of the Radiation Protection Dosimetry and Calibration group at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Safety. Additionally, he is a Professor in the group of Experimental Radiotherapy at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Currently, Filip Vanhavere holds the position of Chair of EURADOS and is an Associate Editor of Radiation Measurements. He has published over 200 papers in various international journals, establishing himself as a respected author and co-author in his field. 

Guerda Massillon

Mexico

Guerda Massillon is a permanent and full-time Associate professor at the Physics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research area is Basic Dosimetry and its application in Medical Physics. She has received several national and international awards for her research such as: “Fellow” of the Interamerican Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) 2011; “Young Scientist Prize” of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2015; “Research Fellow” of the Royal Society, England 2015; “Marie Curie Medal”, 2017; National System of Researchers SNI (Conacyt Mexico) level II and PRIDE C of UNAM. As institutional work she was the president of the Medical Physics Division of the Mexican Physics Society, member of the TG-235 working group of the AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) and actually, an editorial board member of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics.

Pawel Olko

Poland

Pawel Olko is a highly accomplished physicist with a Ph.D. in physics from the Institute of Nuclear Physics Krakow. He is a Polish state professorship title holder and has worked in various research positions throughout his career. Dr. Olko's scientific interests and expertise include microdosimetry, dosimetry, solid state detectors, radiation protection, medical physics, and proton radiotherapy. He has published over 150 research papers in international scientific journals and has participated in numerous national and international committees and organizations. Between 2004-2007, he served as the Chair of the International Solid State Dosimetry Organization (ISSDO). Currently, Dr. Olko is the head of the Division of Applied Physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJPAN) and has been a member of the EURADOS Council since 2002. He was also elected to the Commission in 2016 and has been an active member of the Article 31 Group of Experts, EC, Luxemburg since 2005.

Ramona Gaza

USA

Dr. Gaza is a Deputy Radiation System Manager for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and the Human Health and Performance Science Team Lead for the MARE Payload on Artemis I. She is also a Leidos Technical Fellow providing subject matter expertise to several NASA programs. Her research focuses on crew protection and risk mitigation from radiation sources in space. Dr. Gaza has authored/co-authored 150+ publications and received numerous awards, including the HH&P CAD Team Award and JSC Group Achievement Award for HALO PDR in 2021, and the NASA Group Achievement Award for SpaceX Demo-2 in 2020.

Marco Petasecca

Australia

Jeppe Brage Christensen

Suiça

Mark S. Akselrod

USA

Dr. Akselrod is the Chief Scientist and Executive Manager at Landauer, fully owned subsidiary of Fortive Corp. He manages Stillwater, Oklahoma, Crystal Growth Division of the company. His main research interests and achievements are in the field of radiation solid state physics, crystal growth, optical instrumentation, luminescence dosimetry and optical data storage. He developed super sensitive Al2O3:C single crystals and Optically Stimulated Luminescent technique for radiation dosimetry commercialized by Landauer and still in wide use after 25 years. Novel Al2O3:C,Mg crystals were developed and patented as two-photon absorbing volumetric Optical Data Storage (ODS) media and Fluorescent Nuclear Track Detector (FNTD). The results of research have been described in more than 100 papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals.  He is also a co-author of 33 US patents. Member of the ISSDO and frequent presenter and session chair at international conferences.

Susana de Souza Lalic

 Brazil/Italy

Prof. Susana is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe, General Secretary of Brazilian Physics Society. Her academic accomplishments include serving as a Member of the Director Board of the Master Course in Protection Against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive Events at Tor Vergata University and being part of the Faculty Board of the Research Doctorate in Industrial Engineering - curriculum of Nuclear Engineering and Industrial Safety - of Pisa University. She is also an active member of several professional organizations, including the ISSDO. Prof. Susana earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of São Paulo in 2002. Her research expertise includes Condensed Matter Physics, Medical Physics, and material characterization, with a particular focus on biodosimetry, the development of luminescent materials such as MgB4O7 loaded polymers for 2D dosimetry, and Fricke gels for 3D radiation detectors, having published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

Francesco d’Errico

Italy/USA

Francesco d’Errico is a tenured Full Professor of Nuclear and Biomedical Engineering, as well as of Medical Physics, at the University of Pisa (Italy). Francesco d’Errico started his academic career in 1996 with a professorship in Radiation Physics at Yale University (USA), where he is still a Fellow at Timothy Dwight College. He has joint/adjunct appointments at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and at the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil), where he was “Pesquisador Visitante Especial” (Special Visiting Scientist) within the program “Ciências sem Fronteiras”. Francesco d’Errico has performed and led research projects on advanced methods for nuclear safety and security, environmental monitoring, radioecology, biodosimetry, radiation detection/dosimetry/spectrometry supported in the US by NASA, NIH, NSF, NIH, DHS and DOE, and in Italy by Commission of the European Communities, Italian Ministry of University Research (MUR), Italian Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN).

Susanna Guatelli

Australia

Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli awarded a PhD in Physics at the University of Genova in 2006.  Since 2009 she is an academic of the Centre For Medical and Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia. Susanna is an international leading expert of Geant4 for applications in bio-medical physics, including in the development and characterisation of radiation detectors for radiotherapy Quality Assurance and radiation protection in Earth labs and space.  Since 2018, Susanna coordinates the Geant4 Advanced Examples Working Group and the Geant4-Med project, an international effort aimed to validate Geant4 for medical physics applications. Recent research interests include the  application of machine learning solutions to Monte Carlo radiation physics simulations to  solve medical physics problems. In 2021 Susanna was awarded with the Women in Physics Award of the Australian Institute of Physics, which celebrates female physicists that gave a significant contribution to research in physics.

Oswaldo Baffa

Brazil

Oswaldo Baffa received his BSc in Physics, class of 1976, at the Instituto de Física e Química de São Carlos (IFQSC) of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil where he completed his master’s (MSc-1980) and Doctorate (DrSc-1984) both in applied physics.  He is full professor at the Department of Physics, FFCLRP, USP at Ribeirão Preto. He was Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow.  He is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society, Sao Paulo State Academy of Sciences and Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) fellow and visiting professor to the Department of Medical Physics at the UW-Madison. One of his lines of research is radiation dosimetry using different techniques (EPR, MRI, OSL and TL) and new materials (nanocomposites, amino acids, organic molecules, and gels) for archeological dating, clinical dosimetry, and industrial applications. He has published over 250 scientific papers with several collaborators in Brazil and abroad.

Sara della Monaca

Italy

Sara Della Monaca is a researcher at the Istituto Superiore di sanità in Rome. Her research supports have been mainly attained from projects of retrospective assessment of radiation dose in individuals exposed to ionizing radiation. Currently, she has a fifteen-year experience on the application of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Stimulated Luminescence for the detection of physical and biophysical indicators and markers of exposure.  She has  been involved in the EU projects SOUL and SOLO, epidemiological studies in South Urals with the long range goal of exploring the effects of prolonged low dose and low dose rate IR exposures, and in the Shamisen and Shamisen-sings projects, drawing the lessons from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents and other major nuclear accidents around the world in order to make recommendations for immediate and long-term response to radiation accidents, aiming to respond to the needs of affected populations while minimizing unnecessary anxiety.

Milan Lalic

Brazil

Graduation, master, and Ph.D. (1999) in Theoretical Physics from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Postdoctoral engagement at the University of Montpellier, France (1999-2000), Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research in São Paulo, Brazil (2000-2003), and Federal University of Sergipe in São Cristóvão, Brazil (2003-2005). Currently, he is a full professor at the Federal University of Sergipe. He has experience in the area of Condensed Matter Physics and Computational Physics, with emphasis on calculations based on Density Functional Theory, investigating electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of various types of pure or defective semiconducting and isolating solid materials: luminescent, photo-refractive, solar cell ones, multiferroics...