Lecturers

He is a Founder and Director of Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) at University of Wollongong which is a largest education and research multidisciplinary medical radiation physics Centre in Asia-Pacific.

His scientific interest and expertise is in a field of radiation semiconductor sensors development and their applications for advanced medical radiation dosimetry and space radiation

She is a Senior Researcher at the Energy, and Nuclear Research Institute (São Paulo, Brazil), where she joined in 1995. In the same Institute, academically linked to the University of São Paulo, she received her second Ph.D. in basic nuclear technology (2004). She carried out a post-doc at the Coimbra University, Portugal, within the scope of scientific collaboration (1995-2012), aiming to develop gaseous detectors (resistive plate chambers, microstrip chambers, proportional and self-quenching streamer detectors) for spectrometry and medical dosimetry. Her current research interests are using radiation hard silicon devices as online dosimeters in radiation processing applications under close collaboration with Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland). 

She has also been a group leader for “Solid-state dosimeters for medical and radiation processing.

He is a head of Radiation Dosimetry Group of the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, and since 2018 also the Head of the Radiation Metrology Section, which includes the Radiation Dosimetry Group and the Calibration Laboratory.

He is currently an Associate Editor for the Elsevier Journals Radiation Measurement and Physics Open. His research is focused on luminescence detectors for applications from personal to space dosimetry.

He is a tenured Full Professor of Nuclear and Biomedical Engineering, as well as of Medical Physics, at the University of Pisa (Italy), where he is vice-chair of the PhD program in Nuclear Engineering and heads the Nuclear Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory.

He is President of the Research and Development Board of the International Program on Protection from CBRNe events at the University of Roma Tor Vergata; he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response. 

She 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 a member of the editorial board member of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics.

He is a - Lecturer at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Main specializations are radiation effects in insulators and production and characterization of thin films.

Elected Member at Large of the ISSDO – International Solid State Dosimetry Organization at SSD-16 in Sidney, Australia for a period of 9 years.

José-María Gómez-Ros. MSc, PhD in Physics, MSc in Mathematics. Senior researcher in CIEMAT and Head of División for Radiological Environment. Thirty-five years of experience in radiation dosimetry (mainly, thermoluminescence, Monte Carlo simulation and neutron dosimetry). Co-author of 150 papers in scientific journals and 120 contributions to international conferences. Secretary of ISSDO (International Solid State Dosimetry Organization). Member of EURADOS Working Group 6 (WG6) on computational dosimetry. Member of RSEF (Real Sociedad Española de Física – Royal Spanish Physics Society) and SEPR (Sociedad Española de Protección Radiológica – Spanish Society for Radiological Protection).

She is a University Professor at the Physics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. 

She was the creator and coordinator for 20 years of the UNAM M.Sc. (Medical Physics) program aimed at specializing physicists in medical applications. Her current research interests include the TL response of materials sensitive to the LET of the ionizing radiation, and digital techniques in mammography.  

He is a Full Professor at the Physics Department, FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto where he led the creation of an undergraduate program in Medical Physics and a graduate program in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology.

He is currently an Associate Editor of Brazilian Physics Journal and member of the International Advisory Board of Physics in Medicine and Biology and member of the editorial board of Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. His research is focused on magnetic resonance dosimetry (alanine & gels), ESR dating, luminescence detectors and other aspects of physics applied to medicine.

Dr. Ramona Gaza earned a B.Sc. in Physics from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, a Ph.D. in Physics from Oklahoma State University in 2004 and joined the Space Radiation Analysis Group at NASA/JSC in 2005.

Dr. Gaza is a Leidos Technical Fellow and the Ionizing & Non-Ionizing Radiation Subject Matter Expert for the NASA/JSC Human Health & Performance (HH&P) contract. Dr. Gaza has been the Lead for the passive radiation flight hardware and associated radiation dosimetry and Program Manger for the Crew Active Dosimeter, supporting several NASA programs including the International Space Station, the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), the Commercial Crew, the Gateway, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) and the Human Landing System (HLS).

Dr. Gaza’s expertise is focused on Astronaut crew protection from space radiation including: ISS space weather monitoring and real-time solar event contingency support to the NASA/JSC Flight Team; radiation measurements and data analysis using active instruments (e.g., direct-ion storage devices, Timepix technology, etc.) and OSL/TL radiation detectors; contributions to research studies on radiation effects and mitigation for crew protection. She is also the NASA/HH&P Science Lead for the Orion EM-1 Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE).

Dr. Gaza received a series of awards for her contributions to space exploration, most recent include: NASA Group Achievement Award for SpaceX Demo-2 (2020); NASA Award for Technical Excellence in Enabling the Successful Execution of the Orion MPCV Exploration Mission 2 Critical Design Review (2019); NASA Group Achievement Award for significant contributions to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) Project (2018); Leidos HQ Technical Publication Award for Radiation Measurements Journal publication “Comparison of novel active semiconductor pixel detector with passive radiation detectors during the NASA Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1)” (2018); and the NASA CCP Team JSC Director’s Innovation Team Award (2017).

Dr. Gaza earned a B.Sc. in Physics from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, a Ph.D. in Physics from Oklahoma State University in 2004 and joined the Space Radiation Analysis Group at NASA/JSC in 2005.

She  is a Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, completed her ScD at the same university, her PhD at São Paulo, University, Brazil and was a Visiting Researcher at Nara University of Education, Japan, during her PhD course. She undertook research on Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and dosimetry in Brazil in 1995, with pioneering dating results of sediments collected from the Amazon river and its tributaries. The main lines are interdisciplinary studies with geoscientists in the field of paleoenvironmental changes which occurred during the Quaternary, improvement the methodology of OSL and TL dating, nanocrystalline ceramic synthesis and study of its luminescence emission kinetics.