Plenary and invited speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Andre Vantomme
Quantum Solid State Physics, KU Leuven, Belgium 
"Recent achievements in IBA"





Marco Durante        winner of the IBA prize 2013
Biophysics Department, Director, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany
"Applied nuclear physics at new particle accelerators"




Mariaelena Fedi
Mariaelena Fedi, INFN, Florence, Italy
"Small accelerators for cultural heritage - analytical capabilities and historical overview"

Katharina Lorenz
INESC-MN, IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
"Ion Implantation and Radiation Effects in Group-III Nitride Semiconductors"

Chiara Latessa 
Associate professor at the Physics department of the University of Trento (Italy) and associated scientist at the INFN-TIFPA (Trento, Italy)
"Paradigm shifting of microdosimetry in particle therapy"

INVITED SPEAKERS

Thomas Haberer        winner of the IBA prize 2020
 
Scientific and technical director of the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center at the Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

Prof. Haberer has devoted his scientific career to the interdisciplinary field of ion-beam tumor therapy. In particular, he introduced a crucial innovation in particle therapy: the raster-scan technique. It consists of a method to deliver the dose that focuses the relativistic ion beams down to pencil size, and scans them over the volume of the tumor. This method allows the full clinical exploitation of the advantageous properties of ion beams, as the highly efficient stopping ions are guided into the target volume only, thus sparing healthy tissue and organs close to the tumor.     



Juha Muhonen
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
"Si quantum technology with implanted donors"





Zdravko Siketic
Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
"MeV SIMS application in material science"





Daniel Primetzhofer
Uppsala University, Sweden
"Development of ion-beam tools for non-destructive composition analysis"




Richard A. Wilhelm
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Highly charged ion interaction with surfaces"

Dr. Wilhelm investigates the charge exchange dynamics and the resulting nano-structuring processes of highly charged ions at surfaces. He uses suspended 2D materials for ion transmission spectroscopy, which allows to limit the total interaction time to the femtosecond scale opening new ways to address fast ion-induced phenomena directly in experiment.

Maëlle Kerveno
Maëlle Kerveno, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
"New challenges for experimental data dedicated to reactor physics"

InMy research filed concerns nuclear data for nuclear energy applications and I am especially interested in new measurements of neutron inelastic scattering on actinides. We use the prompt g-ray spectroscopy method with the GRAPhEME device near the  EC-JRC-GELINA neutron facility in Geel (Belgium).



Rene Heller
Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
"Elemental mapping on the nm scale: RBS and SIMS in the Helium Ion Microscope"




Peane Maleka
iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
"Unique high energy neutron beams at iThemba LABS"

I am a research scientist based at iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (iThemba LABS) a multidisciplinary research facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. iThemba LABS is centred on the development, operation and use of particle accelerators and related research equipment. As a scientist, my main responsibilities include research and training of postgraduate students on applied nuclear sciences. Currently, I’m the responsible scientist for refurbishment of the neutron vault at iThemba LABS. The ultimate goal for the renovation is to provide to the global neutron science community, an access to a unique world-class facility capable of providing well-characterised quasi-monoenergetic neutrons in the energy range of about 40 MeV to 200 MeV.


Federico Picollo
Physics Department, University of Torino, Italy
"Diamond devices for biological application (lab on chip)"





Thomas Cocolios
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
"Novel radioisotopes for medical applications: the CERN MEDICIS project and beyond"

Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
"Microdosimetry of ionizing radiations and its application in radiotherapy and radioecology"





Pavol Rajec
BIONT, Slovakia
"Recent trends in development of PET radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine."



 

Lucille Beck
LMC14/LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
"IBA and AMS techniques for Cultural Heritage studies"




Jan Kučera
Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
"Recent achievements in NAA, IBA, and AMS application for cultural heritage investigations at NPI"




Massimo Chiari
INFN, Florence, Italy
"Nuclear physics for the environment and cultural heritage: A LABEC experience"





Lyudmila Goncharova
University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Ion beam implantation for Si photonics"

Dr. Lyudmila Goncharova joined the University of Western Ontario as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 2007, and became an Associate Professor in 2014, her work has been continually funded through NSERC Discovery Grants. The focus of her research has been in exploring and optimizing semiconductor materials and nanostructures for enhanced electronics, optoelectronics, and more recently in the broader area of materials and the role they play in influencing new technology and impacting society.

 

Gastón Garcia
 CMAM-UAM, Madrid, Spain
"Ion beams and synchrotron light in perspective"





Raquel González Arrabal
Instituto de Fusión Nuclear "Guillermo Velarde", Madrid, Spain (materials for nuclear fusion)
"Current status and new approaches in the development of Plasma facing materials for nuclear fusion reactors"

Raquel González Arrabal is professor at the Instituto de Fusión Nuclear "Guillermo Velarde" (IFN), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). After his PhD (2001) at the Technische Unviersität Wien (TUW), she worked as postdoc at the Atominstitut der österreichischen universitäten (ATI/TUW), Centro de Microánalisis de Materiales (CMAM/UAM), Parque Científico de Madrid (PCM) and Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología (IMN/CSIC).
Her field of interest is the developing and testing of materials with improved properties to work under extreme conditions. She has published more than 60 papers in ISI journals. She has more than 100 presentations in conferences all around the world and has lead and participated in different national and international research projects funded by public and private entities



Maria Del Carmen Jiménez Ramos
 Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
"IBIC microscopy for semiconductor detectors research"





Alan Owens
European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Prague, The Czech Republic 
"Semiconductor materials for radiation detection –  current status and AND future development"





Aurélie Gentils
University Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
"Dual ion irradiation of nuclear materials in situ in a Transmission Electron Microscope at JANNuS"

The research of Aurélie Gentils on “Ion Beam Modifications of Materials” originates in her Ph.D. thesis work in 2003. Her research at CNRS since 2008 investigates ion beam modifications in nuclear materials, using mainly JANNuS-Orsay, an invaluable experimental tool of direct relevance for the investigation of microstructure's kinetics in materials at the nanoscale under single and/or dual ion beam(s). She is currently the scientific leader of this quite unique facility that comprises a Transmission Electron Microscope connected to two ion accelerators, allowing direct observation of ion beam induced modifications in materials at the nanoscale.   

Juliana Schell​ 
Materials Sciences Coordinator at ISOLDE, CERN, Solid State Physics at ISOLDE-CERN
"Solid state physics at Islolde-CERN"