New OMA Steering Committee member appointed
Dr Miguel A. Cortés-Giraldo joined the OMA Steering Committee in December 2018. He brings his expertise in radiation therapy and biophysics to the committee.
He studied Physics at the University of Seville, graduating in 2006 and obtaining the First Prize for Excellence in Academic Performance in Spain of his year. His PhD focused on the development and application of Monte Carlo tools in radiation therapy physics. He contributed in the development of a patented detection system for radiotherapy treatment verification, obtaining his PhD in 2011.
Dr Cortés-Giraldo is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics. His main research is related with the development and use of Monte Carlo codes for radiobiology with protons, but he has also worked in simulations applied to a wide variety of research topics, from neutron physics to radiation dosimetry in aircrafts. Furthermore, he has participated in the design of proton beam lines optimized for radiobiology experiments at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA; Seville, Spain), and actively collaborates with the Roberts Proton Therapy Center / University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) and the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil). He is also a member of Geant4 and n_TOF collaborations.
Dr Cortés-Giraldo has supervised one PhD thesis and is currently supervising three PhD projects. He has published over 40 papers in scientific journals and a book, for the general public, on Biophysics.