Role at ANSTO
Post Doctoral researcher at ANSTO Human Health since 2019 in a collaborative project with CNES (French Space Agency), INSERM 1296 Radiation: Defence, Health and Environment. This project aims to study the effects of metallic and secondary particles of space interest, using ANTARES beamline at Centre for Accelerator Science, to offer protective counter measures for long manned space flights .
Expertise
Radiation-induced DNA breaks and repair mechanisms.
Qualifications and Achievements
PhD work (2015-2017, INSERM U1296, Lyon, France. Supervisor: Dr Nicolas Foray): "Impact of the cytonuclear transit of the ATM protein in response to ionizing radiation: notions of pro- and anti-episkevia" a radiobiological characterization of radiosensitive genetic syndromes not mutated in genes related to DNA repair.
Post Doctoral Work:
This work has been structured in two periods: from the end of 2017 till the end of 2019 I started a research project in space radiobiology, with a postdoctoral fellowship from CNES, which led me to irradiate in Paris (protons of the Louvre-AGLAE) and Toulouse (low dose, MarSimulator). I also worked on the stratospheric balloon mission K-riboo Bernadotte. I moved to Australia in 2019 to continue this work at ANSTO.
AINSE SAAFE Scholarship 2016 and 2019
Mentor at the AINSE WISE program