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Contact information


kristoffer.petersson@oncology.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)18 65 61 74 16


ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-5790

Research groups

External Funding

Medical Research Council (MRC)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Kristoffer Petersson

PhD

MRC Investigator & Group Leader - FLASH Radiation

RESEARCH SUMMARY

FLASH radiation is a novel radiotherapy technique that show great potential in improving cancer treatment. However, very little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the highly beneficial FLASH effect. The research group aims to identify these mechanisms, explain the effect, and to find the optimal way of implementing the technique in clinical practice.

BIOGRAPHY

Kristoffer is a Medical physicist from Helsingborg, Sweden, and holds a M.Sc. (2009) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Medical Radiation Physics from Lund University, Sweden. Kristoffer enjoyed a Post-doc period (2014-2017) working on FLASH radiation at CHUV, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lately, he has worked as a clinical medical physicist (2017-2019) and started his own research group in FLASH radiotherapy (2017-) at Skåne University Hospital. Since 2019, Kristoffer is Group leader of the research group "Physics and Biology of FLASH Radiation" in the Department of Oncology.

Talking FLASH with Athan and Christian

GROUP MEMBERS

Nathalie Lövgren, DPhil Student

Salomé Paillas, Postdoctoral Researcher

Jia-Ling Ruan, Postdoctoral Researcher

Sovan Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher

Michele Szegda, MSc student

Edward Taylor, DPhil Student

Iain Tullis, Postdoctoral Researcher & Lab manager

GROUP ALUMNI & NEXT DESTINATIONS

Dr Christian Cooper, Postdoctoral Researcher (2023-2024) --> Research Scientist at Granza Bio

Lana Hendrawan, Research Assistant (2023-2024) -->