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Petra Trnkova, PhD
Current position
• Research Fellow at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston (US)
Previous working experience
• Medical Physicist at Proton Therapy Centre, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (CH)
• Medical Physicist at EBG MedAustron, Wiener Neustadt (AT)
• PhD research position at the Department of Radiotherapy, General Hospital in Vienna (AT)
• Visiting researcher at University Clinic of Regensburg, Regensburg (DE)
• Visiting graduate student at Polytechnic University, Valencia (ES)
• Medical Physicist at Hospital “Na Bulovce”, Prague (CZ)
Education and certification
• Board certified medical physicist in Austria (ÖGMP Fachanerkennung), 2011
• PhD. in Medical Physics, Medical University of Vienna (AT), 2010
• MSc. study in Radiological Physics, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University (CZ), 2007
Interests
• Proton radiosurgery
• Treatment planning studies
• Clinical integration
Grants and awards
• Swiss National Fund Grant, project number P300P3_158522 (2015)
• Award from the Czech Society of Medical Physicist for the best scientific work in the field of radiological physics in the year 2009 (Trnková et al. R&O 93(2))
Hobbies
Climbing, long distance running, yoga