Beata BRZOZOWSKA

PhD, Medical Physics

She received her MSc and PhD in high-energy physics from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. She was a member of the ZEUS Collaboration at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, where her research focused on particle production in deep inelastic scattering at the HERA accelerator.

After completing her PhD, she joined the Biomedical Physics Division, where her research interests shifted to medical physics, with a particular focus on DNA damage in cells exposed to ionising radiation, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. She established a radiobiology laboratory, enabling the initiation of radiobiological experiments with cellular material. She spent eighteen months at Stockholm University, participating in the mixed beam effects for cancer risk project. She currently works with Monte Carlo codes (Geant4-DNA and TOPAS-nBio) to model DNA damage and repair in cells exposed to ionising radiation, conducts radiobiological experiments—including studies on the impact of track structure on cellular response, the role of exosomes in radiosensitivity, and plasmid irradiation at ultra-high dose rates—and pursues research aimed at integrating nanodosimetry with radiobiology.

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