Jenia Vassileva PhD

Jenia Vassileva is a Professor at the National Centre of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection, Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria.. Jenia Vassileva is a Radiation Protection Specialist at the Radiation Protection Unit of the International Atomic Energy Agency. She holds a PhD in medical imaging physics, and before joining the IAEA in 2014, she was Professor of Medical Physics and Head of Department of Radiation Protection in Medical Exposure at the National Center of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection in Sofia, Bulgaria. She supervised over 40 MSc and PhD medical physics students and has been involved in the postgraduate education and clinical training of medical physicists and health professionals in Bulgaria. She was involved in over 20 national, European, or international research projects, member of the Physics Subcommittee of the European Congress of Radiology 2010–2012, and its chair in 2013. She chaired two International Conferences on Radiation Protection in Medicine, 2010 and 2014 in Varna, Bulgaria, and was a guest editor of two special issues of Radiation Protection Dosimetry. She was the President of the Bulgarian Society of Biomedical Physics and Engineering in the period 2012-2014. ​

Since 2014 J. Vassileva when she joined the IAEA, J. Vassileva has been responsible for IAEA publications, technical and consultancy meetings, and Technical cooperation projects related to radiation protection in medicine. Since 2016 she has been organizing regular webinars on radiation protection of patients, has overseen the development of several e-learnings, information, and training material, and has coordinated international studies of patient doses from medical imaging procedures. She has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and has been invited to speak at many scientific forums. She has acted as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Physica Medica.