Sotiria Triantopoulou graduated from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She received a Master of Science in Medical Physics and is currently a Ph.D. student of the Medical Physics Department, Medical School of the University of Crete. Her Ph.D. thesis is realized in collaboration with the Health Physics, Radiobiology and Cytogenetics Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences and Technology, Energy and Safety of NCSR “Demokritos”, where she has worked since October 2019. She investigates the potential radiosensitizing action of new quinazoline derivatives with anticancer activity in human cancer cell lines that overexpress receptors of the ErbB family. She is also a part of the team that deals with the Biodosimetry and Radiation Protection Program of the NCSR “Demokritos”.
Kiki Theodorou is a Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Greece, and a Research Associate of the Medical Physics Department, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm,
Sweden. She received her Ph.D. in Medical Physics in 1990 at the Medical Physics Department, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece, and a PostDoc at the Medical Physics Department, Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Her research interests include physics of radiotherapy, radio biology, advanced MRI
techniques, and radiation protection.
Evagelia C. Laiakis is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
and Cellular Biology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Her research focus includes understanding metabolic responses to scenarios involving a wide range of doses (low-dose to acute-radiation-syndrome-associated doses), dose rates, normal tissue responses, and radiation quality effects (photons, neutrons, and high-energy particles), utilizing biofluids and tissues from rodents to humans and developing biodosimetry assays. Her work also includes space radiation effects in combination with stressors such as microgravity, with particular emphasis on multi-omics integration. She was elected to the NCRP in 2019 and has served at PAC 1 since 2016. In 2021, she served as the co-chair of the Annual NCRP meeting.
Gina Manda currently works at the Radiobiology Laboratory, Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology. She conducts research in immunology, human biology and cell biology. Her current project is "Knowledge transfer in redox biology for developing advanced molecular tools in neurodegenerative diseases—focus on the signature of Nrf2 transcription factor in diagnosis and therapy".
Georgia I. Terzoudi is the Director of Research at the Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Sciences, Technology, Energy and Safety, NCSR “Demokritos” working in the Health Physics, Radiobiology and Cytogenetics Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. in Radiobiology and Biodosimetry from the University of Athens (1998). She has been awarded “The European Society of Radiation Biology Young Scientist Award 2000”. She is a Qualified Radiation Protection Programme Expert, and since 2017 she has served as the Radiation Protection Officer of NCSR “Demokritos”. She has delivered invited lectures, seminars, and presentations in National, European and International (IAEA) post-graduate-courses and congresses. She has gained long-standing experience and international recognition in the field of radiation research. Since 2021, she has been the President of the European Radiation Research Society. Her research focuses on the biological effects of ionizing radiation, conversion of DNA damage into chromosomal aberrations, biomarkers of radiation exposure and biodosimetry, elucidation of the mechanisms of radiosensitivity, radiation-induced chromosomal instability, chromothripsis and carcinogenesis, as well as non-targeted radiation effects.
Alexandros G. Georgakilas is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, he completed post-doctoral research as a research associate in the Biology Department from 2001–2003 and developed his own research laboratory as an Associate Professor with tenure at East Carolina University until 2012. He has also received awards such as the Young Investigator Travel Award from the Radiation Research Society, the Radiation Research Society SIT Award, the ECU Thomas Harriot College Research Award, and the prestigious Terashima Award from the Japan Radiation Research Society. In recent years he and his group have developed bioinformatics methodologies for the study of the response of biological systems to ionizing radiation, embracing systems biology approaches. His research topics mainly include radiation biophysics, DNA damage and repair, systemic effects, inflammation, immune response, carcinogenesis, biopolymers, and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. His work has been cited more than 15000 times with an h-index= 56. He is at the 2% of most cited scientists in the world according to the current list published by Stanford University, USA.
