Team

Alessandra LOMBARDI Senior Accelerator Physicist Working on Particle Sources and Linear Accelerators for Hadron and Heavy Ion Therapy.

Andris RATKUS Senior Researcher at RTU Engineering coordinating of NIMMS, I.FAST and HITRIplus projects in RTU

Aristeidis MAMARAS PhD Student Working on particle sources and linear accelerators for medical applications

Aurelija VINKE Undergraduate Student Current focus on advancing proton radiography research, refining imaging techniques and ultimately improving diagnostic processes and patient care.

Elena BENEDETTO Technical Director of TeraCare Foundation Coordinator and Leader of Synchrotron Studies

Gerrit FLIER Grad Intern Worked on the development of magnet designs for the compact helium ion synchrotron. Specific focus on creating a single combined-function magnet, keeping the synchrotron compact.

Heli HUTTUNEN PhD Student Working on the design and simulations of HeLICS – Helium Synchrotron.

Kristaps PALSKIS PhD Student Primarily investigates biophysical basis of FLASH effect and possible FLASH treatment options with ion beams, while also considering more general medical physics aspects on helium ion therapy and particle imaging.

Lazar NIKITOVIC PhD Student Working on LINAC design for injection into therapy synchrotrons and parallel production of radioisotopes.

Luca GAROLFI Accelerator Physicist Accelerator design and beam dynamics study.

Luca PIACENTINI PhD Student Working on Mechanical design and integration of Gantry structure and superconducting magnets supports.

Maria Elena ANGOLETTA Senior Electronics Engineer Working on RF and Beam control systems for synchrotrons

Maurizio VRETENAR NIMMS Project Head The spiritual leader of NIMMS, project coordinator of iFAST and Project Leader for the construction of Linac4.

Sandra Elisabeth MUHR Knowledge Transfer Officer Supports the NIMMS project in areas of partnerships, funding and more.

Silke VAN DER SCHUEREN PhD Student Working on Efficient Representation and Symplectic Integration of Magnetic Fields on Curved Reference Frames for Improved Synchrotron Design

Toms TORIMS Collaboration Associate Contribution to the overall concept and mechanical engineering components. Coordination of CERN Baltic Group.

Valérie BRUNNER ATS-DO Administrator Coordination of administration for NIMMS

Vincenzo Alberto SANSIPERSICO PhD Student Optimization and Integration of a Compact Helium-Ion Synchrotron for Hadron Therapy: Intensity studies from injection to extraction.

Yiota FOKA Research Physicist Particle physics applications and outreach

Alumni

Gerard Alain TRANQUILLE Accelerator Physicist Expertise in the design, construction and commissioning of low energy compact synchrotrons (e.g. LEAR/LEIR, AD and ELENA). Speciality in beam instrumentation of low energy, low intensity particle beam in synchrotrons and transfer lines which are relevant to the NIMMS project.

Giovanni BISOFFI Chair of the INFN Machine Advisory Committee and Member of the CERN Extended LDG Worked on the injector design and on energy assessment of the room temperature and superconducting options of the whole machine.

Mariusz SAPINSKI NIMMS Coordinator Worked on Beam instrumentation, transfer line beam optics, and ECR ion sources. Supervising two NIMMS master students and a summer student.

Rebecca TAYLOR PhD Student Slow Extraction Design for the NIMMS Synchrotrons