Jeannette Jansen is a doctoral researcher in the field of medical physics working at German Cancer Research Center (dkfz) in Heidelberg, Germany. She focuses on oxygen-dependent FLASH-effects in radiolysis and in-vitro culture.

Ph.D candidate, researching proton therapy physics and Monte-carlo simulation. (Double major) Bachelor's degree of computer engineering and radiological science

I was educated at Brunel and Oxford Universities in the UK, earning my DPhil in Accelerator Physics in 2003. After a year in Margate designing X-ray test equipment and characterising scintillation materials for Hilger Crystals, it was clear that I couldn't really function in the real world and returned to academia in 2005, beginning a research associate position on high power proton accelerators at Imperial College. In 2011 I took up a lectureship at University College London in Accelerator Physics, joining the team overseeing the new proton beam therapy centre at University College Hospital. My main research interests lie in applications of particle accelerators. I am the leader of the UCL High Energy Physics proton therapy research group. My research focuses on high precision detectors for proton beam Quality Assurance to ensure the treatment is delivered safely. I am also a member of the international AWAKE collaboration that is seeking to develop proton driven plasma wakefield accelerators. I led the development of the AWAKE spectrometer to measure the energy of these plasma accelerated electrons.

I was born in Barcelona in 1968. After my basic school education, I studied Physics and graduated at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1991. Then, I received a grant from the Catalan Government to follow a Master in Medical Physics at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). When going back to Barcelona I got a permanent position at Sant Pau hospital where I started working as a clinical physicist in the Medical Physics Department. In 2003 I defended my PhD, which dealt with in vivo dosimetry with diodes for high energy x-ray beams. In 2017, I was accredited as a University Lecturer and in 2018 I have been awarded the ESTRO Emmanuel van der Schueren award. In 2020 I got the diploma as head of radiation protection by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN).I am now Senior Consultant and clinical head for radiotherapy, working both in clinic and in clinical applied research in collaboration with other departments within and outside the hospital. I am also consultant in the protonCAT consortium. At the moment I am ESTRO board member and Course Director of the ESTRO Quality Assessment and Improvement course. I am associate editor of Physica Medica, PhiRO and Radiotherapy and Oncology. My main priorities are the implementation of latest research achievements into clinical practice and the improvement of the quality of radiation oncology treatments. Our clinical department has built strong links with research groups at the Faculty of Physics (UB), BarcelonaTech (UPC), and Faculty of Biology (UAB) with whom we share different research projects; furthermore, we have strong collaborations in teaching. Our projects focus on in vivo dosimetry, dose calculation in heterogeneities for high-energy x-ray beams, skin dose calculation and measurement as well as biological dosimetry. Recently, we have also started a research line on dose evaluation for cardiac imaging with cone beam CTs. Overall these collaborations resulted in 45 papers in peer reviewed journals, around 160 communications in meetings and 13 funded research projects. I am also IAEA expert participating in teaching and QUATRO clinical audit missions. I am associate editor of PhiRo, Physica Medica and Radiotherapy and Oncology.