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COMPANY AWARDS
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ESTRO- ELEKTA BRACHYTHERAPY AWARD
CHRISTOPH BERT
University Clinic Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Prof Dr Christoph Bert (*1976) studied physics at the Friedrich-
Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and at the
Imperial College in London. After graduation in 2002 he joined
the group of Prof Kraft at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy
Ion Research for his PhD-thesis. During the thesis he also stayed
at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, funded by a
stipend from the German academic exchange programme. He
received the PhD from Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt
in 2006, for a dissertation on 4D treatment planning for scanned
ion beam therapy. This topic was also the focus of his Postdoc
at GSI and briefly at the National Institute of Radiological
Science (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan. In 2009 Dr Bert obtained the
postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in medical
physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität of Heidelberg.
Since October 2012, Dr Bert is Professor of Medical Radiation
Physics at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and head of medical
physics at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the
University Clinic Erlangen. His research focus aims at improving
therapy techniques and their quality assurance. Current focus
topics are the management of organ motion by tracking and
error detection in interstitial brachytherapy.
Christoph Bert