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ESTRO- ELEKTA BRACHYTHERAPY AWARD

CHRISTOPH BERT University Clinic Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Prof Dr Christoph Bert (*1976) studied physics at the Friedrich- Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and at the Imperial College in London. After graduation in 2002 he joined the group of Prof Kraft at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research for his PhD-thesis. During the thesis he also stayed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, funded by a stipend from the German academic exchange programme. He received the PhD from Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt in 2006, for a dissertation on 4D treatment planning for scanned ion beam therapy. This topic was also the focus of his Postdoc at GSI and briefly at the National Institute of Radiological Science (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan. In 2009 Dr Bert obtained the postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in medical physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität of Heidelberg. Since October 2012, Dr Bert is Professor of Medical Radiation Physics at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and head of medical physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Clinic Erlangen. His research focus aims at improving therapy techniques and their quality assurance. Current focus topics are the management of organ motion by tracking and error detection in interstitial brachytherapy.

Christoph Bert

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