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Guest Scientist: Dr. Stella Veloza

26.08.2016

Dr. Stella Veloza - Humboldt Research Fellow at the Chair for Medical Physics

2016-08-26-Veloza-DSC_1387We are proud to have Dr. Stella Veloza as a guest scientist in Munich. She has been a Humboldt Research Fellow of Professor Dr. Katia Parodi at the Department of Medical Physics of the LMU Physics Faculty since January 2016. She arrived from Bogota, Colombia where she is an associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
“Alexander von Humboldt was in Bogota 215 years ago”, she reflects, “and thanks to the Humboldt Foundation I came in the opposite way to Germany with my family to conduct a research at LMU Munich". The aim of the project of Dr. Veloza is to establish advanced 3D-in-vivo dosimetry for clinical routine use in radiotherapy, in close cooperation with the Department of Radiation Oncology of the LMU
University Hospital. "My background in Monte Carlo simulation and my work in the development of dose reduction techniques for computed tomography during my Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg are an excellent complement to reach the goals of my research".

“What I like very much about Humboldt Foundation is that it offers large autonomy to the fellows, making for me possible to select as a host Professor Dr. Katia Parodi, a world-class researcher with a wide network of international scientific cooperation. Her team at the LMU is composed by people of many different nationalities, it is an interdisciplinary group, everyone contributes to the success of the projects, we have many opportunities for brainstorms”. Dr. Stella Veloza explains that to be a "Humboldtian" is to be part of a Network of Excellence, "it is a really distinguishing award, which you obtain through a very tough selection. I am very glad and thankful to get the Humboldt support".

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Dr. Stella Veloza setting an experiment at the LMU clinical accelerator