Maria Fuglsang Jensen works as a medical physicist at the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy. A medical physicist’s job is to do all the physics related to cancer treatment with protons. This involves characterization, modelling, and continuous quality assurance of the proton beam. They also do treatment planning for individual patients and evaluation of the dose distribution throughout the course of treatment. They develop treatment strategies for new cancer sites and patient types and are a part of creating clinical trials together with the doctors. Maria has worked at the centre since 2017 before it opened for the first patient. Besides all the clinical duties and shifts, Maria’s specialties are proton stopping power calibration, beam modelling, and dose calculation algorithms. She also works with the development of and the physics-related follow-up on proton therapy for lung, breast, and oesophagus cancer. Finally, Maria takes pride in advising young physics students in their bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. projects in proton treatment.
The prize committee will select a winner who will be announced at an award ceremony at the KIF Annual Meeting on June 4th, 2024 taking place at Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen.
The winner will be notified in writing in advance and invited to give a talk following the ceremony.
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