Job and thesis project opportunities are available.

February 2020: David Craft, Ph.D. co-authored a recent Nature publication on somatic drivers. 

January 2020: The first proton therapy patient was scanned with our prompt gamma spectroscopy system, which was developed from first principles to a clinical system by Joost Verburg, Ph.D. and his team over the past 7 years. Congratulations for this significant achievement!

July 2019: Abdel Hammi, Ph.D. won 2nd place in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Young Investigator competition.

June 2019: Joost Verburg, Ph.D. received the Michael Goitein best abstract award in physics at the annual conference of the Particle Therapy CoOperative Group (PTCOG).

December 2018: Our proton range detector was listed as one of the 5 breakthroughs of the year in medical physics and biosciences.

November 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. receives a highly competitive Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award that supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas. Congratulations!

October 2018: Variable RBE impacts proton therapy of liver cancer (Physics World)

September 2018: Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D. receives the Glocker Medal, the highest award of the German Society of Medical Physics (DGMP). It is named after Richard Glocker, the last Ph.D. student of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

September 2018: Precise proton range detector gets ready for the clinic (Physics World and featured article in PMB)

July 2018: David Gierga, Ph.D. was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).  

May 2018: Jay Flanz, Ph.D. was re-elected as the Chairman of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) for the second term. 

April 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. is the 2018 recipient of the Michael Fry Research Award of the Radiation Research Society. Congratulations, Jan, on this well deserved honor for your significant accomplishments.     

March 2018: Stefan ten Eikelder will receive the Jan Hemelrijk Award for his Master’s thesis "Optimal fractionation for combined photon-proton treatments" from The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. He also received the Tilburg University Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 and the Philips prize for Data Science in Healthcare, one of the Young Talent Awards of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations Stefan!

February 2018: Susu Yan, Ph.D. received an early career scholarship award at the Winter Institute of Medical Physics

February 2018: Three ways to make proton therapy affordable (ESTRO news)

Videos about our work

These videos were published by the Institute of Physics (physicsworld):

1. A pioneering approach to cancer treatment

2. Targeting tumours

3. Proton therapy teams up with PET imaging

4. Fighting cancer with mathematics

Mission:

“The Division of Radiation Biophysics improves clinical outcomes by leading innovative research, development, and clinical application of imaging techniques, multimodality therapies, and computational methods while providing patients with the highest level of safety, efficiency, and accuracy of their treatments.”