Ana Denis-bacelar PhD

Dr Denis-Bacelar graduated in particle physics from the University of Santiago of Compostela (Spain) in 2007 and received her PhD in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Brighton (UK) in 2011. She then pursued a career in nuclear medicine at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS FT (UK). Her research focused in the application of quantitative multimodality imaging and radiation transport modelling to improve the outcome of patients treated with molecular radiotherapy and provide the evidence for personalised treatments.

She is also interested in the study of the biological effects of radiation and the optimisation of pre-clinical imaging to improve drug development and to minimise the use of animal resources. She is a member of the Medical Physics Committee at the Institute of Physics since 2017, when she also joined the National Physical Laboratory as a Senior Research Scientist in the Medical Radiation Physics group. Her role involves the development and implementation of metrology and measurement traceability capabilities in quantitative imaging and dosimetry, with the aim of providing an optimised nuclear medicine service.