Short bio of the lecturers
Abdallah Lyoussi
Prof. Dr. Abdallah Lyoussi is physicist researcher in experimental physics and Research Director and Senior Fellow in Nuclear Instrumentation and measurement at French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission CEA in Cadarache, France. He is also Professor at French Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technologies and Aix Marseille University. He received his MSc in nuclear physics from Fes University (Morocco) in 1988 and MSc in Nuclear Engineering from French institute of nuclear sciences and technologies (INSTN) in 1990. In 1994, he received his PhD in nuclear physics and, in 2002; he received advanced graduation in Research and Development supervising activities on experimental physics (HDR). He was awarded French Nuclear Energy Society price for his works on photofission interrogation as nondestructive measurement by using a LINAC machine.
He is the founder and the General Chairman of the international conference ANIMMA (Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications) since 2009. Since 2010, as the main founder he is the CEA scientific coordinator of the LIMMEX join Lab between CEA, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University he is involved in instrumentation and measurements in extreme media. Since 2014, he is IEEE Distinguish Lecturer and IEEE Senior Member.
Abdallah Lyoussi has worked on several nondestructive measurement methods such as photofission interrogation, neutron interrogation by using different kinds of detectors, electronics, data acquisition systems and advanced particle production machines like LINAC; neutron generators, X tubes. He developed, patented and published various works related to innovative and advanced nuclear measurement methodologies. Abdallah Lyoussi is now mainly involved in supervising R&D on nuclear instrumentation and measurement in severe media (nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle, dismantling and decommissioning, radioactive wastes assays, severe accident monitoring, safeguards…).
Prof. Dr. Eng. Christelle Reynard-Carette
Prof. Dr. Eng. Christelle Reynard-Carette (1974) graduated in Thermal Sciences at Aix Marseille University in 1998 and obtained her PhD on heat/mass transfer in microgravity (boiling, thermocapillary convection, parabolic flights) at the same university in 2001.
She is professor at Aix Marseille University (laboratory IM2NP UMR7334, DETECT department, team Microsensors-Instrumentation). She is deputy director for research of ISFIN institute (Institute of Fusion Sciences and Instrumentation in Nuclear Environments). She conducts research on the design, development, miniaturization and characterization of sensors for the on-line measurement of key quantities within nuclear reactors (absorbed dose rate/nuclear heating rate, calorimetry, irradiation campaigns). She led/leads several joint research programs with the CEA (IRESNE, Jules Horowitz Reactor) within the framework of the AMU-CEA-CNRS joint laboratory LIMMEX (Instrumentation and Measurement in EXtreme Environments) created in 2010 and for which she is responsible for AMU and CNRS. She collaborates with various partners and international nuclear centers. As an example, she is in charge of two A*Midex projects involving the MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (CALOR-I project for research area, MOBIL-APP project for education area). She is also involved
in the ANIMMA conference and the Franco-Moroccan school EFMMIN since their creation (member of the scientific and steering committees, organization chair workshops). She is also responsible of two master’s tracks in instrumentation, measurement and metrology (in particular a new international track dedicated to Instrumentation and Measurement Science for Major Nuclear Research Facilities which started in 2022).
Gabriela Llosá
Dr. Gabriela Llosá has been the coordinator of the IRIS group at IFIC (Valencia) since 2014.
She received her MSc in Physics in 1998 and her PhD in physics in 2005, both from the University of Valencia. In 2011 she was awarded with the IDEA award of the ’Fundación de las Artes y las Ciencias’. She has more than twenty years experience in detector development, mainly for medical applications. She started working in the construction of detectors for different particle physics experiments at PSI and CERN and later on she specialized in detectors for medical imaging. She has always worked in the development of novel technologies and techniques at the frontiers of the state of the art and within international projects and collaborations. She has collaborated with numerous research groups, mainly from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, USA and Canada. Her current interests focus principally on the development of Compton cameras for hadron therapy treatment monitoring and for visualization and dosimetry of the distribution of radionuclides in the patient’s body in Targeted Radionuclide Therapy. Overall, she has participated in more than 25 funded research projects (mostly Spanish, Italian and European) and been the P.I. of more than 10, some of them in collaboration with hospitals and protontherapy centres. She has also led several innovation and valorization projects and R&D contracts with companies. Concernig training of young researchers, she is a lecturer in the Masters of Medical Physics and of Advanced physics of the University of Valencia since 2009 and 2014 respectively. She has supervised eight PhD theses and over 30 research works from Bachelor, Master and Erasmus+ students.
She is the president of the medical physics group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF) since 2019. She is founder and main organizer of the RSEF/IFIMED medical physics conference (four editions since 2016) and co-organizer of the RSEF Biennial Symposium and CPAN days.
Dr. Arantxa Ruiz Martínez
Dr. Arantxa Ruiz Martínez is an experimental physicist at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Valencia. She has conducted her research in the ATLAS experiment of the LHC accelerator at CERN since 2004. She received her PhD in 2009 with Cum Laude honors. She joined IFIC with a Ramón y Cajal grant in 2018 and is a tenured scientist (científica titular) since 2023. She has made important contributions to several areas of the ATLAS trigger system (online event selection for permanent storage), being its maximum responsible as ATLAS trigger coordinator during the LHC Run 3 data taking start. She is currently the Institute Representative at IFIC of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) project as well as principal investigator of different national and regional research projects focused on the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS detector.
Dr. Ana Ros García
Dr. Ros is a permanent researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is part of the IRIS group at IFIC. She started her research career in Germany where she did a master thesis in MRI. After that she did her PhD at IFIC optimising PET modules in terms of spatial resolution, a postdoc at UPV working on realistic simulations for the design of an ASIC for PET module signals and a postdoc in HEP in UK within the TORCH project. After that, she came back to Spain with a Severo Ochoa. In recent years she has been working mostly in proton therapy monitoring and PET.
Hands-on lecturers
Dr. Francisco Albiol – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Salvador Tortajada Velert – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Matthew Strugari – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Wilson Ramírez Tejerina – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Santiago González de la Hoz – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain Director of the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics,
University of Valencia
Mireia Simeó Vinaixa – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Nadia Yahlali – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Diego Real Máñez – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. David Calvo Diaz-Aldagalán – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Neus Lopez March – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Joshua Edward Renner – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Juan David Villamil – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Pokhee Saharia – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Fabian Kellerer – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Camilo Andrés Cortés – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Nadia Yahlali Haddou – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Fernando Hueso-González – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Nuria Fuster-Martínez – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Daniel Esperante Pereira – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Juan Carlos Fernández Ortega – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Luis Barrientos Mauriz – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Wilson Ramírez Tejerina – Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Michael Holik (IEAP CTU & FEE UWB) Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Dr. Vladimir Vicha (IEAP CTU) Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague.