Current XCITE Lab members
Name | Position | Project |
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Magdalena Bazalova-Carter | Associate Professor | All of them :) |
Pierre-Antoine Rodesch | Postdoctoral fellow | CT imaging with photon-counting detectors |
Deae-eddine Krim | Postdoctoral fellow | X-ray FLASH radiotherapy |
Alison (Xinchen) Deng | Postdoctoral fellow | Photon-counting CT imaging |
Devon Richtsmeier | PhD candidate | Gold nanoparticle drug delivery and spectral imaging |
Alex Hart | PhD candidate | Scintillators and FLASH with x-ray tube |
Jade Fischer | PhD student | Radiotherapy with VHEE |
Olivia Masella | PhD student | Low-cost radiotherapy |
Nathan Clements | Research Assistant | Spatially-fractionated radiotherapy |
Courage Mahuvava | Volunteer | Dose calculations for small animal radiotherapy |
Kevin Murphy | Volunteer | Spectral CT imaging |
Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, PhD, DABR Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics (Tier 2)
Magdalena received her BSc in Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2003 and her PhD in Medical
Physics at McGill University in 2008. In 2009, she started her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and three years later she was
promoted to an Instructor at the same institution. Apart from advancing her academic career, Magdalena enjoyed working at the Stanford
Hospital as a part-time clinical medical physicist. Magdalena joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an Assistant Professor
in July of 2015. Her CV can be downloaded here.
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Pierre-Antoine Rodesch, PhD Postdoctoral fellow
Pierre-Antoine [/pjeʁãtwan/] is French, he received his BSc in mechanical engineering in Paris in 2012 in Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. He then slowly slipped towards medical imaging by firstly getting a MSc in biomechanics in 2014. He then moved to the French Alps to do a PhD on spectral CT reconstruction with photon-counting detectors in CEA Léti. From 2018 to 2020, he worked in the CREATIS laboratory in Lyon on the SPCCT, a large field of view spectral CT prototype, equipped with photon-counting detectors.
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Deae-eddine Krim, PhD Postdoctoral fellow
Deae-eddine Krim is a dedicated and passionate physicist hailing from Morocco. After completing his BSc in 2016, he continued his academic pursuits by enrolling in the Master's program in the physics of matter and radiation. During this time, he focused on simulating linear accelerators (LINACS) used in medical physics for his MSc graduation project.
In 2019, Deae-eddine embarked on his doctoral thesis at Mohammed First University of Oujda-Morocco, where he tackled some of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy. His research involved the development of a groundbreaking/new virtual source model for large and small fields, as well as a novel treatment method using focused VHEE beams through virtual magnetic lenses and prisms.
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Devon Richtsmeier PhD candidate
Devon is from Boise, Idaho and received his BSc in Physics from Boise State University in 2018. As an undergraduate, in addition to his coursework, Devon worked on research in Biophysics investigating the pore-forming protein lysenin. In the course of that research he also became interested Medical Physics and began investigating it more fully before finally deciding to pursue a degree in it. Devon began his MSc in Medical Physics at UVic in September 2018 and is also a part of the CREATE PoND Program. He is working on using gold nanoparticles in conjunction with XFCT.
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Alex Hart PhD student
Alex received his BSc in Applied Physics from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington in 2015. Shortly after, he began his career in medical physics as an Applied Physics Technologist with Northwest Medical Physics Center before moving to Canada for graduate school. Alex earned his MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Victoria in early 2021 while a member of the UBC-based Qurit lab. His masters work focused on the development of new clinical protocols for oncological FDG PET/CT imaging. As a PhD student, Alex is excited to contribute to the rapidly developing field of FLASH radiotherapy.
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Jade Fischer MSc student
Jade graduated from the University of Calgary in 2022 with a B.Sc in physics. During her undergrad, Jade worked on a variety of research projects including projects in chemistry and complexity science. She ultimately was drawn to medical physics. Her work included projects on functional treatment planning for liver SBRT and machine learning for medical image translation. Through her graduate education, she is excited to learn about novel techniques and apply those skills to improve treatment methods and outcomes for patients.
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Olivia Masella MSc student
Olivia received her BSc in Physics from the University of Waterloo in 2022. Starting from her second year as an undergrad, she worked as a co-op student and subsequently as a volunteer at the Grand River Cancer Centre, performing QA duties and researching cell-simulation methods. Olivia's research allowed her to work closely with a 3D Multi-Scale cell modelling software ultimately leading to an undergraduate thesis investigating simulated chemotherapy on a simulated prostate tumour model. Her interest in Medical Physics came quickly and suddenly once exposed to the field leaving her excited to begin her master's at the University of Victoria.
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Nathan Clements Research Assistant Nathan is from Summerland, BC and will be entering fourth-year of his BSc in Physics September at UVic. He is very excited to join the XCITE Lab for an NSERC USRA position. He will be experimenting with the AmpTek X-123CdTe detector doing phantom scans and hopefully working up to a biological sample. In his free time, he likes going to the gym and playing basketball and volleyball. |
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Courage Mahuvava Volunteer
Courage is from Zvishavane, a small town in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe. Under the Medical Research Council of South Africa, Courage spent the past six years as a Medical Physics researcher in a clinical radiation oncology environment, where he worked on several High-Energy Advanced Radiation Dosimetry (HARD) flagship projects; ranging from prototype beta testing of the IQM transmission detector to online treatment verification as well as pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) in combination with EGSnrc Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations.
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Kevin Murphy Volunteer
Kevin is working on an undergraduate degree in Physics & Astronomy at the
University of Victoria. He spent a summer working in Eureka Nunavut with
PEARL research lab and looks forward to continuing to pursue his passion for
a greater understand of the universe and our place in it.
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Former XCITE Lab members
Name | Next or current position | Project |
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Jericho O'Connell, PhD | Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard/Dana Farber | Cost-effective RT |
Nolan Esplen, PhD | Postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson | FLASH/SFRT |
Josephine Brewster | Undergraduate student at UVic | Low-cost radiotherapy |
Jonathan Eby, BEng | MSc student at U of Toronto | Table-top FLASH system |
Teaghan O'Briain, MSc | MSc Student and VIU | Motion correction in PET |
Laszlo Zalavari, PhD | Resident at Stanford University | Segmentation in photon-counting x-ray images |
Joanna Nguyen, PhD | Researcher at General Electric | Food inspection with photon-counting detectors |
Daniel Cecchi | MSc student at U of Calgary | Scintillators for FLASH therapy |
Ellie Badun | Programmer | Web-based dose viewer VICTORIA |
Chelsea Dunning, PhD | Postdoctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic | Novel x-ray imaging modalities (PhD) |
Dylan Breitkreutz, PhD | Resident at Stanford University | Kilovoltage x-ray beam arc therapy (PhD) |
Chris Johnstone, PhD | Resident at University of Toronto | Small animal radiotherapy (PhD) |
Spencer Robinson | BSc student at UVic | Spectral CT imaging, EBT3 film response |
Eisa Alyaqoub | BSc student at University of Madison (EE) | 3D printing for small animal radiotherapy |
Clay Lindsay | PhD student at UVic | Combined kV/MC imaging with a high-DQE MV detector |
Spencer Bialek | PhD student at UVic (Astronomy) | Software development for microCT image analysis |
Henry Baxter | BSc student at UVic (CS) | Visualization of TrueBeam treatment trajectories Kilovoltage x-ray beam arc therapy |
Lila Chergui | MSc student at Perimeter Institute (Theory) | Microbeam radiotherapy |
Aaron Bannister | MSc student at UVic (Medical Physics) | Gel dosimetry in the presence of metals |