Centre for Medical Radiation Physics

15/02/2024

Experts from internationally renowned space agencies will come together this week (12 February to 15 February) for an event hosted by the University of Wollongong (UOW) which aims to address issues including space qualification requirements, radiation effects in microelectronics, and radiation hardness assurance.

The School of Space Qualification Conference, to be held in Mooloolaba, Queensland, will hear from leading researchers, engineers, physicists, entrepreneurs, consultants and advisors from organisations such as NASA, the French Space Agency, United States Naval Research Laboratory and the European Space Agency.

Distinguished Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld, Director and Founder of the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, will Chair the conference. Read more 👇

https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2024/international-experts-join-forces-to-examine-impact-of-radiation-on-electronics-in-space.php

29/06/2023

Congratulations to all the physics students who have been awarded for their outstanding achievements at the UOW Awards night⭐️🤩You've truly demonstrated that you are a "force" to be reckoned with in the world of physics. Keep "accelerating" towards success and remember to always "quantum leap" beyond your limits. Keep "orbiting" towards greatness and let your "bright" minds continue to shine!😎😎

28/06/2023

Some of the awesome high school physics students attending our recent hands-on HSC Physics Days at UOW last week🤩 Study a degree in Physics👇
https://www.uow.edu.au/study/mathematics-physics-chemistry/

27/06/2023

Opportunity for high school students Years 10-12
UOW is hosting the 2023 PECAN+ Capture the Flag event 💻
PECAN+CTF is a cyber security challenge for high school students. It offers a series of beginner, intermediate and advanced challenges for people to complete over the course of a day. A fun training day is offered to help students to understand how to use cyber tools, Virtual Boxes, and Linux.
Students can bring in their own laptops with VMs and tools already installed.
When: 5th-6th August 2023 (Saturday and Sunday)
Time: 10:30am start on Saturday
The cost of this event is FREE
Agenda:
- Day one - a training day for beginner and intermediate students only. Industry presentations will be held after lunch. The theme is 'The one that didn't get away'
- Day two - Competition day! The presentation of prizes will be held from 4:30pm
To register for this event, click here 👉

PECAN+CTF is a cyber security CTF challenge for high-school students that happens over the weekend of 5-6 August.

27/06/2023

Get paid for your industry experience through CSIRO Generation STEM Links!
Generation STEM Links is a hands-on placement program that pairs NSW students in their later years of studying a STEM qualification with industry.
Industry partners use Generation STEM Links to build a pipeline of high potential, local talent, raise their brand awareness and access financial support for each completed internship.

Eligibility
- Be in their penultimate or final year of study in a STEM qualification, Bachelors Degree, or Honours level (masters and PhD student are ineligible to apply)
- Do NOT currently have an alternative paid placement opportunity
- Studying a relevant STEM qualification
- Be an Australian citizen/resident currently residing in New South Wales

To find out more information and how to apply, click here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5bfbw4zu

15/06/2023

IN THE NEWS 💻The Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) within the School of Physics at the University of Wollongong is developing, with ARC support, a comprehensive space radiation monitoring system (SRAMS) to evaluate the radiation hazard on astronauts and space electronics in real time. SRAMS is based on a set of semiconductor radiation detectors developed at CMRP with different configurations and operational principles.

Read more through the recent article published by the Australian Academy of Science:

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30/03/2023

Dear All, I remind you that the seminar on Photodynamic therapy in biomedicine by Prof. David Aebisher is in one hour, at 4:00 pm,

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26/03/2023

Dear All,

I would like to invite you to the CMRP seminar entitled: “Photodynamic therapy in biomedicine” by Prof. David Aebisher, Head of The Department of Photomedicine and Physical Chemistry,
University of Rzeszów, Poland.

The seminar will be on Thursday the 30th of March, at 5:00 pm local time, via Zoom at:
https://uow-au.zoom.us/j/7982381116

Abstract:
David Aebisher research interest and bulk of published works is on the development of devices for the localized delivery of 1O2 for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). PDT is a treatment that uses a combination of light-absorbing photosensitizers (PS) and dissolved oxygen to kill cancer. As a cancer treatment, PDT therapy is considered to be a more mild approach as oxygen and light are the starting materials and ROS such as 1O2, and to a lesser extent superoxide (·-O2) and hydroxyl radical (·OH), are the active agents responsible for eliciting cancer cell death as opposed to agents which are toxic to the body as a whole such as chemotherapy drugs and radiation. Singlet oxygen is a short lived ROS (< 1 μs in the cell), thus a requirement is to release and deliver 1O2 within distance of ca. 200 nm from targets within a cell. PDT is gaining in popularity among physicians although few laboratory PDT systems have made the transition to clinical use due to limitations such as the tissue penetrating ability of visible light. PDT is also a method that can be controlled with regards to the location of the treatment as it requires selective illumination of the treatment area with light. Selective illumination and light activation then enables selective damage of diseased tissue without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue.

Short biography of the speaker:
David Aebisher was born in New York, USA. He graduated from two majors (mathematics and physiology) at the University of Wyoming (University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA). At the same University (in 2001), under the supervision of Professor Edward Clennan, he obtained his PhD in physical-organic chemistry for the defense of his doctoral thesis entitled Mechanistic Studies on the Sulfide-Singlet Oxygen Reaction Surface. In February 2018, he obtained his habilitation in medical sciences at the Faculty of Medicine with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in Zabrze of the Medical University of Silesia in Poland for the scientific achievement entitled Localized Delivery, Release and Tracking of Highly Reactive Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agents.
He started his scientific career as a Research Assistant at the University of Wyoming, Department of Chemistry (Laramie, Wyoming, USA) where he worked in the years 1994–2001. From 2002 to 2004 he was employed as a Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2005–2011 he worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at The City University of New York, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, New York, USA), and in 2012–2016 he was an assistant professor at Shorter University (Rome, Georgia, USA). For five years at the University of Rzeszów, he has been conducting research on the use of photodynamic therapy and singlet oxygen dosimetry, as well as the application of magnetic resonance imaging to pharmacokinetics. His achievements have an index H=19 for about 350 IF, he wrote 15 books.

Cheers
Susanna Guatelli

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06/02/2023

The Centre For Medical and Radiation Physics kindly invites you to participate at the seminar by Airbus Defence and Space,
which will take place on the 9th of February at 14:30, in hybrid mode, in campus (35.G20) and via zoom.

Zoom Details: https://uow-au.zoom.us/j/85276397740?pwd=YUNiY3IycVRBM05nMzZsVEswSUJhUT09
Passcode: 972508

This is a unique opportunity to know about this multinational aerospace corporation, its program and opportunities of career for physicists.

30/10/2021

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