International Symposium on Radiation Physics

Prof. Andris Stelbovics on electron-atom interactions in radiation physics [A]
Andris Stelbovics is Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University of Technology and is currently researching few-body scattering processes and providing computationally complete solutions of the Schrödinger equation. Full Bio

Prof. Gordon Drake on the theory of few-electron QED [A]
Gordon W.F. Drake, FRSC is a University Professor of Physics at the University of Windsor, Canada, and the current Editor of Physical Review. Full Bio

Prof. John Rehr on developments of XAFS and FEFF for local structural indentification [B]
John J. Rehr received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from Cornell University in 1972 and following this received a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London (1972-73), and a postdoctoral appointment at University of California, San Diego (1973-1975). Full Bio

Prof. Yves Joly on developments of XANES and quantitative X-ray analytical techniques [B]
Prof. Yves Joly has been a researcher for 23 years for the last 12 years, his primary investigations have been theoretical and computational studies of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Full Bio

Prof. Martin Feiters on analysis of catalysts and chemical reactive intermediates [C]
For his PhD Martin Feiters worked on the structure–function relationship of the enzyme lipoxygenase at the University of Utrecht and Chalmers Technical University (Gothenburg, Sweden). Full Bio

Prof. Pieter Glatzel on high-accuracy experiments [C]
Pieter Glatzel studied physics at the Universities of Mainz and Hamburg/Germany. During his PhD he worked at the University of California at Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Full Bio

Prof. Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud Gomaa on Natural Radiation dose to Airline Passengers
Professor Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud Gomaa has been a member of the International Radiation Physics Society since its formation. Full Bio

Dr. John Seely on laser-produced X-ray plasmas and spectroscopic diagnostics [D]
John Seely is Research Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory and is Head of the UV and X-Ray Spectroscopy Section. He performs research in the areas of EUV and X-ray spectroscopy of laboratory and solar plasmas with applications to the diagnosis of the plasma properties. Full Bio

Prof. Isabella Ascone on biomedical analysis [F]
I. Ascone is the chair of the IUCr International Commission on XAFS. Her scientific activity in France within CNRS (at LURE and at Synchrotron-SOLEIL facilities) has been mainly centered on the development of Biological applications of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (BioXAS). Full Bio

Prof. Soichi Wakatsuki on medical applications and biology [F]
Dr. Wakatsuki is Director of Photon Factory, a national synchrotron radiation facility, and Structural Biology Center of KEK, Tsukuba, Japan. Full Bio

Prof. Don McNaughton on medical imaging [F]
Don McNaughton is an Australian Professorial Fellow and director of the centre of Biospectroscopy based in the school of chemistry, Monash university. Full Bio

Prof. Liming Chen on high-brightness table-top laser sources for high-energy radiation and advanced medical physics [F]
Liming Chen received his Ph.D in Physics in 2000 from the in Institute of Physics and lab of Optical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing. Full Bio

Prof. Eric Dooryhée on Cultural Heritage and Art analysis [H]
Eric Dooryhée received a PhD in radiation physics, University of Paris in 1987. In the late 90s, he started pioneering work on archaeological objects using synchrotron X-ray techniques. Full Bio

Prof. Paul Dumas on Application to space, earth and environmental sciences
Paul Dumas is a Director of Research, at the CNRS (Centre National Recherche Scientifique) in France, and presently works at the French Synchrotron facility SOLEIL (France). He is a physicist, who works for several years on surface science vibrational spectroscopy. Full Bio

Prof. Tibor Papp
Tibor Papp has a PhD and a CSc in physics.  He holds a European Marie Curie fellowship for the study of collective excitations in atoms, detector materials and in biological matters. Full Bio

Prof Michael Haumann on Sources and detectors and simulation of radiation transport
Michael Haumann is a Professor at Freie Universitt Berlin. His main interests are the development and application of spectroscopic techniques. Full Bio

Prof. Yuanjing Li on New technologies and industrial applications
Yuanjing Li is a Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Radiation Physics and Detection in Department of Engineering Physics in Tsinghua University. Full Bio

Prof. Annemie Adriaens on Stabilisation of Cultural Heritage Objects [H]
Annemie Adriaens graduated with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 1993 from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), where she was involved in the optimization of new technologies for inorganic micro and trace analysis. Full Bio

Prof. Ronald Frahm on Medical Frontiers and Sources [C, D, F]
Ronald Frahms experience covers absorption spectroscopy on amorphous and crystalline materials, liquids and clusters, anomalous (DAFS) and surface X-ray diffraction. Full Bio